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Re: convert light into energy



On Wed, 02 Feb 2000 14:39:34 -0700 Jim Green <JMGreen@SISNA.COM> writes:

Properties don't move independently from an associated object -- a
blue ball can move but blue does not move independently from the ball.



On the contrary! There is no such thing as a "blue ball". The molecules
and other
particles that are found in a "blue ball" are completely devoid of color
.....
any color. It is only when there is light present which has the
wavelength
that we perceive as blue. In the absence of such light, a "blue ball" is
not blue.

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where blue light moves independently from "blue balls" ..... but we
never tell this to
our hormone-rich high school boys for obvious reasons)
when it reaches ) impinging upon the ball