Some of you may say, ``Wait! ... white rays from a golden source?'' To you, I say: (pick one)
  1. The source is golden by reflected light, but white by emitted light.
  2. The rays are golden too, but they're reflecting off white vapor in the air, so they look white.
  3. It's poetical n' stuff.
  4. I'm trying to fool you. For my next trick, I will describe the appearance of the beam from the movie projector as it passes through the dense methane-ammonia atmosphere of the local theater.
  5. It was all a dream.
Remember, this is a multiple-choice test, so there are no right answers. (However, if you pick one of the wrong answers, you will regret it for millennia.)