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yes i am actually workin on a project and i need tokno sum cool facts about light which i can add to my project! the most exciting fact will get 10 points! guarantee
the facts can be rally complicated which is for big scientists and elementary facts also
help me please
thank you!

2006-10-07 21:18:06 · 4 answers · asked by vbagdy 3 in Science & Mathematics Physics

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Here's a fun thing about light: It's what makes a rainbow.

Sunlight usually seems white to us. But the color "white" is actually a mixture of all the colors the human eye can see. (If you paint a top red, yellow, and blue, then spin it, it'll look white!) So white light, like sunlight, is actually a mixture of many colors of light.

When sunlight shines into a droplet of rain water, it reflects on the inside of the droplet (like a mirror), then shines back out of the front.

But different colors of light travel at slightly different speeds. (That's actually what makes "colors" in the first place---it's just the way your brain experiences different speeds of light!)

Because the colors that enter the droplet are moving at different speeds, they bounce off the inside at different angles. (It's sort of like what happens when you throw a fast ball at a wall: It bounces off at a different angle than a slow ball.) When the colors finally reach your eyes, they look spread-out because you're seeing each color from a slightly different angle.

Hope this makes sense... I think it's kind of cool.

Cheers, Ander

2006-10-07 22:06:13 · answer #1 · answered by Ander 3 · 0 0

Light is made of photons which are massless particles which is sort of a contradiction of terms. Light is electromagnetic energy which means that it has both a magnetic component and a voltage (electrical) component. It seems to travel as a wave, but that does not properly describe it. Our eyes are sensitive to visible light which is only a tiny fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum. Radio waves and x-rays are also photons which means they are light, but they are light in a frequency that we cannot see. Look for "The Final Anthropic Principle" to really blow your mind because it proves that we actively create the universe by our observation of the light photons within it. Also for further study check the KJV bible on what Jesus (the CEO of the universe) said about light. Pursue science, pursue truth, discard 99.9% of religion. Best wishes in your studies!

2006-10-07 21:41:55 · answer #2 · answered by vicfta 2 · 0 0

1)without light, we cannot see anything. Any light that you see is made up of a collection of one or more photons. Your eyes absorb some of the photons flowing through the room, and that is how you see.
2)The idea of the light wave came from Christian Huygens, who proposed in the late 1600s that light acted like a wave instead of a stream of particles.
3)Light waves come in many sizes
4)white light is made up of several colours and the warmest colour in a rainbow is the 'blue part'
5)violet has the most energy and red the least.
6)Rainbows, sunsets and halos; a spectacular display of colors and visuals in the sky called "atmospheric optics".
7)A 'black hole' in the space has so much gravitational force that even light cannot escape from it.

2006-10-07 23:56:25 · answer #3 · answered by cosmoboyin 2 · 0 0

Light travels at 299,792,458 Meters/Second in a vacuum, and is observed at that constant speed even if the observer is moving. Light can be refracted, unlike some other rays. Light is comprised of particles called photons. Energy = Mass * C (the speed of light)^2.

2006-10-07 21:38:24 · answer #4 · answered by joe h 2 · 0 0

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