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Originally Posted by competentone
It probably has more to do with damage to your eyes from staring at the sun.
If you watched someone using an arc-welder, you might see a "green flash" when they stopped too -- and that would have nothing to do with "wavelengths blocked out by water"!
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No, that is ridiculous, this is a well documneted and frequently observed phenomenon. You need to read up a bit more if you expect to live up to your name. You see a blue/white flash from welding, and if you burn a hole in your retina, you get a black spot, not a green spot.
It is physics, light has more atmosphere to get through at an oblique angle, and I believe that Einstein dude had something to say about gravity's impact on light photons as well.