How does the sky work?
Billy Crystal,
Norwich.
Hi Billy,
What a great question! The answer may surprise you...
For a long time, it was assumed that the sky was a huge sheet of canvas draped across the earth by God to cover it up when people came over to visit as he was more than a little embarrassed by it. This theory has come under a lot of criticism recently due to no one really being sure if God is still around anymore. No one has seen him for at least 36 years.
It is now widely believed that the sky is in fact a thick layer of condensation which coats the outer level of the earth's atmosphere, the 'Glass Fantastique' zone.
The sky's sole purpose is to keep sound from escaping from the earth's atmosphere and rendering our world mute. The sound leaves the point of origin (A phone for instance) and travels immediately upward (as gravity demands). It enters the sky which slows it down somewhat after which it reaches the Glass Fantastique zone and bounces off it. Thanks to The Sky the sound bounces off the glass at a safe speed and returns to our ears as a recognisable sound. You can see the process in a diagram below.
The white or grey 'clouds' you can often see in the sky are not Astro Sheep as popular science would have you believe, but are in fact the floating remains of 'Hard Sounds' which have burst upon impact with the G-Fantastique zone and have sadly not returned to earth. No one knows which sounds these are, I suppose we'll never know eh Billy?
Billy?
Now that's what I call Science!
Prof. Thorogood,
LMAO Institute.
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