On rainbows. Part 9

In regard to your apparent puzzlement with the inverted image of the two merging reflexes close to the first rainbow angle, either completely study the phenomenon in question and read, for instance, the articles by J. D. Walker (I have included also his publications efforts in more educational literature), or simply take your favourite textbook on optics and analyse the sequence of rays around the Cartesian ray (ray of least angular deviation, ray “f” in the ray-racing calculation(!) below): You will see that g-f stay in order, while f-e are inverted opon leaving the drop. The image does NOT show the two possible paths (

http://rainbowstudy.blogspot.de/2010_07_01_archive.html) leading to an equal angular deviation which make up the images of a light source. I will agree that the SKETCH (see below, likely not a raytracing) in https://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~zawischa/ITP/refraction.html is wrong in the unimportant detail of the point at which the back-side reflection takes place (it won’t be the same point). However, the inversion of the parallel light rays seen in the raytracing and calculations (again, cf. Walker) is the ultimate reason for the image inversion that you parade as a blow to the conventional rainbow theory…

Below is another pearl of the conventional piddling piffle, coming from the fairy tales of the cantankerous mob of physics' freeloaders that have been wasting with sickening impunity the world's hard work and blind generosity. Listen carefully at this other conventional monologue, recited by another Dr. of a spectacular similarity to the perversely supercilious Selmke Markus. Enjoy.

A water-filled spherical vase serves as a model for a falling raindrop (following Antonius de Dominis, Descartes and Goethe). Instead of the sun, a small lamp shines on the drop, its mirror image on the front surface is seen as a white point to the right of the centre. Light which enters the drop is reflected at the back surface and leaves the drop to finally reach the eye of the observer. This can happen along two different paths, and correspondingly two reflexes are seen on the left side of the drop. 

The left image shows a drop well inside of the rainbow, where the sky is brighter than outside. Increasing the angle of observation (measured from the point opposite to the sun), the two reflections approach each other (middle image), join while becoming very bright – and eventually vanish. As the shortest waves are refracted most, first the "blue" rays join and get bright while green and red are still separated. Then green becomes bright and vanishes, and finally red (right image). What we see as a rainbow are the tiny, but (in the light of the sun) very bright reflections in the innumerable falling drops. 

Over the years I have made so many videos that show to any observer without a vested interest in the reigning academic powers (which, btw, form the modern aristocracy of our times and are driven by the same set of egotistic urges and traits as those who used to strut their over inflated egos in the feudal times of humanity's even darker days) that the conventional fairy tale of rainbows is just a moronic concoction that will only serve as a confutative parody for those that will come tomorrow. For those of us who live alongside these gargantuan narcissists, however, the current story of rainbows is just a real tragedy of human stupidity and ineptness. Alas, for the time being there is not much we can do, for the simple and blatant reason that most of these aristocratic miscreants have totally monopolized the major intellectual avenues that could otherwise be used to persuade those with political clout to begin asking the questions that are needed to overhaul the rotting parasitic establishment that has freely festered in its many years of absolutely authoritarian ruling. (Isn't it blindly obvious that the so-called scientific establishment is unilaterally a party without any opposition in this supposedly democratic world of ours? Think about it.)

Below there are just four of my videos showing the grotesque fallacy of the conventional view of how rainbows emerge from raindrops. Please watch them and judge for yourself whether what I've been saying (with a massive increase of saturated intensity and contempt for the pharisees that are preaching in the current temple of physics) is right or wrong.