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Cookster997 12th Jan 2014

You then say blue has the 'biggest less powerful' waves, and it travels slowest while not in a vacuum. This is false too. All light particles travel the same speed in the same medium. For example, a ray of red light will move at the exact same speed as a ray of blue through water as long as the water is completely pure. If you want more info on wavelengths and light, check here: http://science-edu.larc.nasa.gov/EDDOCS/Wavelengths_for_Colors.html
Cookster997 12th Jan 2014

and blue [is] the biggest less 'powerful" (I think you stopped making sense here) and travels the slowest while not on the vacuum" First off, like I said, red light has wavelengths of about 650-750 nm.Ultra-Violet (UV) light has a wavelength anywhere from about 400 nm to about 10 nm. Any shorter, and you get into X-rays and Gamma rays. The name UV comes from being "ultra" (more than) "violet" (violet light). There are more waves in one millimeter for UV than for red light
Cookster997 12th Jan 2014

To mrmavlok, sadly, you are wrong, and you don't seem to know what you are talking about. Cheeseyburger is correct. In the visible light spectrum, red has the longest wavelengths, at about 750 nanometres in length, and purple (violet) light has the shortest, about 400 nanometres between each wave peak. In your comment, you say something like "the waveleng[th] of the red [light] is actually shorter[,] even shorter than UV (Ultra-violet) which is right next to [the red light] (false)
sentinal-5 11th Jan 2014

#fail IRL red is the lowest normally visible frequency, blue is the highest... nice one...
Lafoog 11th Jan 2014

Also +1 for being cool and teaching me that light is difracted in TPT
Lafoog 11th Jan 2014

May I use the 'photon gun' in one of my own simulations? I will modify it so its not the exact same thing.
mrmavlok 10th Jan 2014

@cheeseyburguer: you are wrong the wavelenght of the red its actually shorter even shorter than that its the UV which is right next to it and blue its the biggest less "powerfull" and travels the slowest while not on the vacuum
runemaster 8th Jan 2014

@Cheesyburger: Yeah, but this is TPT. Using Photons for every color, and since photons are at a set speed, making one slower then another would be the biggest pain in the ass ever.
cheeseyburger 8th Jan 2014

This may look like wavelength, but it's just bouncing at diggerent angles depending on the angle it hits the glass. In reality, blue has a shorter wavelength than red, but in this simulation, it's the other way around. Looks cool, demonstrates nothing.
Rea-Bans 7th Jan 2014

Wow. Great job, zaphod42. But can you create a superintelligent shade of the color blue? :)

The Powder Toy

Wave length Comparison by zaphod42

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