Talk:Green flash

message: PAGE IS A MESS, pictures over text and vice versa.  Someone clean it up?  I don't know how.Mzmadmike 14:43, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've seen it just once, but quite impressive. Like all other references I recall, it was over the ocean, seen from the waterfront. All references I recall also call it the green flash, so I'm thinking that might be the preferred page title, but maybe others' experience differs?--Richard Jones 13:28, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: (William M. Connolley 20:15, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I just moved it to "Green flash" and I mentioned that green ray and green flash are not completely synonymous. AxelBoldt 23:47, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page title 

message: This page needs a picture. It would be nice if we could find an uncopyrighted one, or if someone would take one (easier said than done, I know) and release it under the GFDL. Wmahan. 21:58, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
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message: Does this refer to the green flash legend from the Florida Keys? If so, I could reference Carl Hiassen's new book "Flush" in this article. (I'm actually reading it right now, so I thought I'd ask...) Mattderojas 23:24, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I recently did a whole slew of research on the Green Flash and hope to greatly expand the article when I have time.  I was recently reading Flush, too, and I was surprised when I read about the Green Flash. I added it to the article. --M@thwiz2020 01:24, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Green flash in the media 

message: "Very occasionally, the amount of blue light is sufficient to be visible as a "blue flash". (This is not to be confused with the blue flash reported to occur during nuclear criticality accidents.)" – HA HA HA, who the hell would confuse a blue flash of the setting sun with a nuclear criticality accident? :P Bossk-Office 00:31, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone seeing it suddenly, while otherwise engaged, during a threat scenario.  Unlikely, but possible.  Would you prefer they didn't specify?  But seriously, people come to an encyclopedia because they don't know the answer.  If there are two answers, they need access to both. Mzmadmike 14:42, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not the two phenomena which are confusable, it's the fact that the same term is used to name them. The wording was obviously an attempt at disambiguating the usage, which is valid since someone searching for 'blue flash' will be led here.220.239.3.5 00:50, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Blue flash

message: Everybody, before you remove a picture, please, ask yourself few quesions: "What do I know about green flashes? How many I've seen myself and am I really qualified to decide what picture to remove?"
Thank you.
Mbz1
: Wikipedia is not your image repository.  Please do not get upset because someone removed one or mroe of the eight hojillion images you added to this page.  Jeez. Assume good faith, my friend.  Assume good faith. // 24.250.125.206 13:15, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  removing pictures 

message: I'd like to thank Dr. Andy Young for his help in the writing of green rim section of the article. Not only he has the most comprehensive explanation of mirages and green flashes, not only he has the most comprehensive Annotated bibliography of mirages, green flashes, atmospheric refraction, etc., but he also responded hundreds of my questions via e-mails.--Mbz1 (talk) 18:12, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:   Acknowledgments 

message: should it be noted that the Green Flash is used in PotC: at worlds end, where it symbolyses the soul crossing from the land of the dead? Lord loss210 (talk) 18:25, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pirates 

message: I don't know enough about the phenomenon but I'd argue with the assertion that "light moves more slowly in the lower, denser air than in the thinner air above".  If anyone knows what this really means in the context of the article, please feel free to modify it (i.e. better than I feel I can).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by AstroWiki (talk • contribs) 13:09, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speed of light 

message: Is there a link to be made with Fata Morgana (mirage)? JMcC (talk) 12:23, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Fata Morgana

message: I removed the paragraph about "There are problems with the explanation of the cause of the green flash". It was added by 207.103.7.226 without any supporting citations. 
Even though the index of refraction of air is very small, it can still be enough to deflect light noticeably because of the very long distance it travels through the atmosphere while undergoing small amounts of refraction. The reason the flash is so small is because most of the sun has set below the horizon. The green rim phenomenon demonstrates that the entire image of the sun can be affected: green light from the whole image is preferentially shifted upward, causing a small but noticeable green tint at the top (and red at bottom) of the image.
It seems that whoever added this paragraph didn't personally understand the phenomenon, but that doesn't mean the phenomenon lacks a scientific explanation. Perhaps the intent of 207.103.7.226's edit was to request clarification in the explanation, in which case he should have edited the Talk page (and this should now clarify it).
Rotiro (talk) 18:51, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey, me, Carl, again, I am wondering folks, does this "Green Flash" not attach conceptually to both relativity AND quantum physics (via that infrared light being quantized / up-classified / amplified in wavelength so we can see it as potentially green, blue, purple, or even could this be an explanation for why we see double (and sometimes even triple) rainbows as well? Will the theoretical equations that are written about this become the first bridges across the "Theory of Everything" that aims to unite Einstein's Relativity with the field of Quantum Physics? If we had a planetary-sized, perhaps, silicate-biotelescope driven by AI in a century from now, could we see a "Green Flash" on an exoplanet? Do the equations that govern this phenomenon require avenues that attach to relativity as well as quantum physics? Are we not looking at *a* "holy grail" of physics when we see the Green Flash? I am a believer in the "Many Paths" approach to enlightenment, and suspect there will be more theories that require equations that bridge the relativity-quantum physics gap, but this phenomenon, for one, seems to demand that of astrophysicists. I humbly need to re-read the equations and remain a conceptual / theoretical commenter, LLAP y'all! Carl.r.larson (talk) 19:49, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explanation of green flashes 

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thread_title:  [[:File:Development of Green Flash.jpg]] to appear as POTD soon 

message: The explanation section doesn't actually explain what a green flash is. It opens with 'Green flashes are enhanced by mirage', and continues in that vein. The real explanation for a green flash is found in the Green rim section. Quite odd, don't you think? Tomásdearg92 (talk) 15:21, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I tend to think of a green flash in general as the last bit of the green rim being the only thing that is visible as the sun sets. Usually this would be only moderately visible. This can be magnified and made brighter by mirage effects. The green rim is caused by atmospheric dispersion, where density gradients in the atmosphere act like a prism and slightly spread out the light of low objects into a vertical spectrum.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.75.201.73 (talk) 18:52, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explanation 

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message: The page currently states a green flash occurs "right after sunset or right before sunrise". However, since the precise definition of sunset is when the top edge of the sun disappears below the horizon, and the pictures clearly show the green flash while a portion of the sun is still visible, surely this should read "right before sunset or right after sunrise"? Peace Makes Plenty (talk) 15:14, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Before or After Sunset (and Sunrise)? 

message: Can someone familiar with this subject review the introduction? It seems to be based on negative statements that are quite confusing (e.g. the first sentence reads "Green flashes and green rays are NOT meteorological optical phenomena that sometimes occur just before sunset or right after sunrise." emphasis added.) Shouldn't the "not" be taken out? Also, the last sentence of the intro is extremely unclear and seems to be a misinterpretation of the linked source. The source is saying that three of the four types of green flash are more common than the fourth type, if I'm reading it correctly. And please indicate what "Earth NOAA" refers to.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michijake (talk • contribs) 20:10, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Introduction 

message: Isn't this also related to how stars and bright planets appear to strobe red and green when they are a low angle to the horizon? The first time I ever saw it through binoculars it freaked me out, I didn't even know what it was until it rose higher in the sky and stabilized to one color. 
64.222.112.139 (talk) 07:39, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
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message: The following should be added to the list of references in the "In popular culture" section
A Flash of Green A Novel by John D MacDonald. Also a movie made from the novel. 
Referenced as follows.    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._MacDonald
And:  https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/john-d-macdonald/flash-of-green/
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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Donslevin3 (talk • contribs) 19:05, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello Donslevin3, and I appreciate your suggestion. I am going to say, thanks, but no thanks. There's no indication that the MacDonald novel bears any relation to the optical phenomenon known as a green flash; any similarity in the title appears to be purely based on the words alone. In any case, the In popular culture section probably needs to be trimmed. Best, Altamel (talk) 05:41, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  In Popular culture