Friday, February 5, 2010

Electromagnetism in Bangladesh (text)

Tubla's birthday present from moi was a few pairs of sweet diffraction grating glasses. Here we are witnessing the electromagnetic spectrum in all it's glory. The gratings in the lenses allows for the "diffraction" or differential bending of the various wavelengths of light thereby showing cool rainbows all around any white light you look at. Blue wavelengths being shorter are bent more and red being longer are bent less. Of course all of this light rushing around our world is the result of electrons being energized to higher orbitals, jumping back down, and then transforming this energy of motion into self propagating waves of electricity and magnetism that work at right angles to each other propelling through  air or space or glass at 186,000 miles per second or 300,000 km. per second (speed varies with medium).

So, to review light comes from the unceasing ping-ponging of electrons in their unending "orbit" around the nucleus of the atom. Little bits of matter condensed from an over abundance of energy that flowed forth into the Universe, like love, some 13.7 billion years ago. Love to us all, Jim

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