QUANTUM SNARK

Light is part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Just one slice of a very energetic pie.

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Visible light is a tiny slice (~400–700 nm) of the full EM range. Radio waves can be kilometers long; gamma rays can be shorter than атом nuclei.

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