• multifariace@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    wait, can visible light waves at thousands times larger than atoms interact with subatomic particles?

    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
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      5 hours ago

      Chromodynamics uses colour to represent the three charges of the strong field, like + and - for the one charge of the electromagnetic field. It rarely interacts with actually visible light.

    • Programmer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      20 hours ago

      Of course but with a huge wavelength, their frequency is very small. Small frequency means small energy so the effect of visible light is shadowed by other subatomic processes