On The Wavelengths Of Light Poem by Gayathri Seetharam

On The Wavelengths Of Light



On the wavelengths of light
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
I saw sunlight making a colourful play on the living room wall
It had in a parallel sequence
Violet, Blue, White and Yellow, Orange colours
I looked long and hard for the scientific answer
Studying a physics textbook and the internet
And found on Wikipedia an inkling to the clue
It flashed to me that Huygen's equation for the energy of light
Based on the Planck's constant and the frequency
Had the assumption that light travels as waves
And there could be conflicting patterns
Between travel of light as photons also
And if there are short wavelengths followed by white light
Instead of medium wavelengths
And there are longish wavelengths for there is no red
Perhaps, green and indigo and red are absorbed by the opaque wall
Or when it is refracted from the air or reflected off the wall
It leaves the spectral lines as I observed as a magical footprint of its entry
Through the window as I sit and dream into an equally magical future
In which I would be recognised for my efforts and endeavours with payment of money
I think that Einstein's equation for energy which is mass multiplied by the velocity of light squared
Is also applicable as it is the equation for particles
Assuming the two to be equal for white light,
That is equal number of waves is equal to equal number of photons
For white light, we get the mass of light or photons as equal to 24.7 x 10 power -13 kg/sec
Which proves that photons have no rest mass and this is their mass
And I took the average of all the calculated energies on Wikipedia's Colour.

On The Wavelengths Of Light
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Topic(s) of this poem: science,colour
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