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Electro Magnetic Spectrum
What happens when you take two natural wondering parallel lines and force them to turn whilst still parallel? In a two dimensional perspective you will see two overlapping waves with a positive and negative parabola opposite from one another. In reality we would see a spiral. Imagine that these lines are instead two of the smallest forms of energy known as a photon and they are spiraling each other. When you reach distances of four hundred nanometres to seven hundred nanometres in between the photons (or wavelengths) you get what is commonly known as a visible light wave. Light is very common in the Universe. Light is so common that everything on Earth has evolved to us life to its advantage to survive. If you were to take a prism and put light to it, it can slow light down by a fraction by revealing its much more colourful side. This is commonly known as the visible light spectrum. On one end of the spectrum you have red and on the other you have Violet. Red is red because its wavelengths are larger and has a larger Frequency. A frequency is the level of energy is it giving off and is determined by its wavelength, the larger the wavelength the higher the frequency. Blue is blue because it has a smaller wavelength and a higher frequency. If you were to ask a modern physicist "What is light?" he would probably say "An electromagnetic wave". What's an electromagnetic wave? An electromagnetic wave (light) is mad up of entirely fundamental particles. The smallest fundamental particles known as photons make up light. Fundamental particles are only created and destroyed, they do not decay. All fundamental particles were created at the Big Bang. All fundamental particles are made entirely up of electromagnetism, being one of the reasons for electromagnetic waves. The other reason is that similar photons have the same amount of energy in a collection of matter (photons are released from electrons when they move; Light moves electrons on an atomic level to release its

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