This is how I visualize light "wiggling" at its individual frequency.
Those "humps" when everything seems to "slow down" marks the resonant period of the light wave, when all partitions of wavelengths converge in their peaks.
What the gif doesn't represent, how I see it, is that the circles are rotating as well. Consider it analogous to a Lorentz Force with magnetism, but with light instead.
I could be wrong, but that's how I see it in my mind.
White light has all the "circles" combined. All the wavelengths present at once.
If you can manage to extract a circle, you isolate its color wavelength.
The light maintains its own momentum, which lends itself to different physical properties. Blue would be the smallest circle, because it geometrically moves the most relative to other light forms (tighter wavelength). Red is the outer circle, which others "ride" on in a sense, but only because its wider wavelength is more pronounced conceptually. It's hard to say if light wavelengths stick together simply because they were discharged with the same vector, or there is something else keeping the frequencies together.
When the wavelengths interact with a prism, a very dense material, the blue wavelength can wiggle between the cracks in the material better than the red. It's not that it's "smaller" or "faster" but that the "tread on the tire" is finer so it is more "grippy" as it pertains to wiggling through any obstructions. All the wavelengths take up the same "space" but their stability in that same nugget of space depends on their frequency.
Like a bullet, the more erratic the internal forces, the less likely it is to diverge from its trajectory.
How I see it with vapor, which might contradict established theorems, is that a white light hits a prism, the blue escapes with the least amount of influence from the vapor molecules while the red gets scooted around more in the matter. Blue goes on past the vapor and gets caught in another and another, so on and so forth, until it escapes at odd angles and heads towards your eye. The red does so much earlier, and so the splitting results in red light being visually closer to the light source while the blue further away, as demonstrated in a sunset. The only reason a sunset scatters the light as it does is because as the sun crests the horizon the atmosphere relative to the light source is the most dense as compared to the middle of the day where the sun is directly overhead. The sky is default blue, because blue makes more bounces than red, and so red light doesn't proliferate as much before all its energy is converted into heat.
I could be wrong, but at least now you have some idea what visuals are bouncing around in my mind.
This is how I visualize light "wiggling" at its individual frequency.
Those "humps" when everything seems to "slow down" marks the resonant period of the light wave, when all partitions of wavelengths converge in their peaks.
What the gif doesn't represent, how I see it, is that the circles are rotating as well. Consider it analogous to a Lorentz Force with magnetism, but with light instead.
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/styles/os_files_xlarge/public/gmwgroup/files/lorenzforce-fig2.jpg?m=1540326425&itok=_KSb3SgM
Each circle would be its own "color" on the light spectrum.
https://www.thoughtco.com/thmb/qP1_h_MKsrmAlx_MK-hDOasJXPY=/768x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)/the-visible-light-spectrum-2699036_FINAL2-c0b0ee6f82764efdb62a1af9b9525050.png
I could be wrong, but that's how I see it in my mind.
White light has all the "circles" combined. All the wavelengths present at once.
If you can manage to extract a circle, you isolate its color wavelength.
The light maintains its own momentum, which lends itself to different physical properties. Blue would be the smallest circle, because it geometrically moves the most relative to other light forms (tighter wavelength). Red is the outer circle, which others "ride" on in a sense, but only because its wider wavelength is more pronounced conceptually. It's hard to say if light wavelengths stick together simply because they were discharged with the same vector, or there is something else keeping the frequencies together.
When the wavelengths interact with a prism, a very dense material, the blue wavelength can wiggle between the cracks in the material better than the red. It's not that it's "smaller" or "faster" but that the "tread on the tire" is finer so it is more "grippy" as it pertains to wiggling through any obstructions. All the wavelengths take up the same "space" but their stability in that same nugget of space depends on their frequency.
Like a bullet, the more erratic the internal forces, the less likely it is to diverge from its trajectory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_momentum_of_light
How I see it with vapor, which might contradict established theorems, is that a white light hits a prism, the blue escapes with the least amount of influence from the vapor molecules while the red gets scooted around more in the matter. Blue goes on past the vapor and gets caught in another and another, so on and so forth, until it escapes at odd angles and heads towards your eye. The red does so much earlier, and so the splitting results in red light being visually closer to the light source while the blue further away, as demonstrated in a sunset. The only reason a sunset scatters the light as it does is because as the sun crests the horizon the atmosphere relative to the light source is the most dense as compared to the middle of the day where the sun is directly overhead. The sky is default blue, because blue makes more bounces than red, and so red light doesn't proliferate as much before all its energy is converted into heat.
I could be wrong, but at least now you have some idea what visuals are bouncing around in my mind.
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