• niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Plus this new fella works mainly in the infrared, there are so many more photons with a lower energy level than with visible light.
    As the energy/frequency levels go up, the number of photons decrease.

    The drop between levels can be so dramatic, that around the turn of the 20th century physicists coined a term for the shift to the next level beyond visible light in the opposite direction to infrared - The Ultraviolet Catastrophe.