Every Other Video About Color is Wrong

From Reactions.

That’s right, every other video you’ve seen about color has been wrong, or, at least, incomplete. Because they pretty much all say that when light hits an object, some is absorbed, whatever isn’t is reflected back, and that’s what we perceive as color. But absorption is not the whole story.

This video is going to explore deeper than all those other videos. It’s going to explain that color is the result of light interacting with electrons … most of the time.

#color #electrons #electronorbitals

Credits:
Executive Producer:
Matthew Radcliff

Producers:
Andrew Sobey
Elaine Seward
Darren Weaver

Writers:
Alex Dainis, Ph.D.

Hosts:
Alex Dainis, Ph.D.

Scientific Consultants:
Douglas Mulford, PhD
Stephen Westland,PhD
Jon Malis
Michelle Boucher, Ph.D.
Leila Duman, Ph.D,
Anne Hylden

Executive in Charge for PBS: Maribel Lopez
Director of Programming for PBS: Gabrielle Ewing
Assistant Director of Programming for PBS: John Campbell

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