Oh, wow, oh, oh, wow, oh, wow, oh, man.

Like, you know, like And I'm your host, James Fodor. So in this episode, we're listening to The Science of Everything podcast, episode 32, light and optics,

and I'm your host, James Fodor. So in this episode, we're going to look at light and optics.

Specifically, we're going to look at the different theories of how light works, the particle and the

wave theory, and then we'll sort of combine those together in the modern understanding of

electromagnetism, wave particle duality, and all that sort of thing. Very interesting. Once we've got the modern understanding of electromagnetism, wave pinnacle duality, and

all that sort of thing. Very interesting. Once we've got a basic understanding of light, we'll

go through and look at some basic behaviors of light, how light behaves under certain conditions

or in certain interactions with matter, including the behavior of light at media between two

different types of materials when it hits the boundary between those

behaviors such as absorption reflection and transmission we'll also take a look at color and its relationship to the wavelength of light

and we'll talk about refraction and dispersion to interesting properties of light or behaviors of light

so before we start it's probably a good idea if you had a bit of a background in some of the prior physics episodes before listening to this one.

Episode you could look at include episode 9, matter and molecules, episode 14 on principles of quantum mechanics.

And definitely you'll want to have the background of episode 24 vibrations and waves.

That one's probably the most important.

Either listen to those episodes or at least have some background in those generic topics.

You especially need to know things like wavelength and frequency and so on.

Otherwise, those don't really make sense when I talk about them in this episode.

All right, then, let's get into it.

First question, what is light? This is a question that sort of plagued philosophers and scientists

or I guess proto-scientists for thousands of years, because light seems to be somewhat of a

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