
What color is the Sun?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Different Ladder Stages for an Electron
There's this ladder of energy levels for an electron. The technical answer is that those are the only solutions to the Schrodinger equation. And so you can sort of like fit a certain number of half-wigg lengths. Every time it makes a certain jump from like three to two or from like 3 to one it's always going to have exactly the same energy and frequency.
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