Actual conversation with my three-year-old, shortly after sunset on a recent evening:
T: "Mommy, look! Real clouds!" [ed. note: while the Station Fire was raging, we were making a distinction between the columns of smoke sent up by the fire, and "real" clouds]
Me: "I see. Aren't they pretty?"
T: "Yes! They're orange and blue! Why?"
Me (thinking): "Umm... Well, when the sun is setting, the light has to go through more air in the atmosphere, and it bends differently, and that makes it orange. Bending light makes different colors."
T: "Yes! Like a rainbow!"
Wow. Simple association (different colors = rainbow), or profound insight into how refraction works?
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