{"id":3938,"date":"2009-10-24T03:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3938"},"modified":"2009-10-24T03:00:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T08:00:26","slug":"everything-looks-worse-in-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3938","title":{"rendered":"Everything Looks Worse in Black and White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twistedphysics.typepad.com\/cocktail_party_physics\/2009\/10\/images-of-supernovae-and-supermodels.html\">Cocktail Party Physics:  images from supernovae to supermodels<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Light can be modeled as photons, which are characterized by a wavelength \u03bb and a frequency f. Those quantities are connected by the speed at which the wave travels (which, for electromagnetic waves, is the speed of light). c = f \u03bb, which means that the wavelength decreases as the frequency increases.<\/p>\n<p>Even though humans can see only a very small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, we are somewhat obsessed about transforming what we see into a format that allows us to share it with other people, or putting it in giant piles in the back of a closet that we really do intend to organize someday. Really.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cocktail Party Physics: images from supernovae to supermodels Light can be modeled as photons, which are characterized by a wavelength \u03bb and a frequency f. Those quantities are connected by the speed at which the wave travels (which, for electromagnetic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3938\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}