When I searched on the Internet for the reason of formation of rainbows, I got many explanations like this one & this. All the explanations consider only one spherical water droplet (like this one).
Why don't the refracted waves coming from the adjacent droplets interfere with each other? For example, why doesn't a red ray coincide with a violet ray coming from another droplet at a suitable position?
How are we able to see rainbows with distinct colors? Since there are thousands of raindrops in the sky when it is raining, shouldn't it be a mess due to overlapping of different wavelengths?
Please explain.
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