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the trick light plays when it gets bored of being invisible
means Relating to or produced by a prism, especially the way light splits into a spectrum of brilliant colors; by extension, anything dazzlingly many-colored or sharply varied.
from From the Greek 'prisma,' meaning 'something sawn off' (from 'prizein,' to saw), describing the angular, sawed-looking shape of a triangular glass block. The word came into English through Latin in the 1600s, and 'prismatic' followed, blooming into its color sense once people learned that such shapes could break white light into a rainbow.
- newton's win
- Newton split white light to prove color hides inside it
- raindrop physics
- Every rainbow is billions of tiny prisms working together
- bird vision
- Birds see prismatic ultraviolet hues humans cannot perceive
- oil slicks
- Thin films split light without any prism at all
- word origin
- From Greek prisma, meaning something sawed apart
newton's prism experiment — 1666: isaac newton used a prism to split white light into a spectrum, proving light composition
aurora borealis — arctic regions: natural prismatic effect from solar wind particles refracting through atmosphere, creates multiple colors
castle of sammezzano — tuscany, italy: 19th-century palazzo with prismatic stained glass windows creating kaleidoscopic colored light