{"id":13635,"date":"2012-04-30T01:43:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T00:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/?p=13635"},"modified":"2013-08-27T13:52:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T12:52:55","slug":"want-a-full-spectrum-love-life-watch-this-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2012\/04\/30\/want-a-full-spectrum-love-life-watch-this-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"Want a Full Spectrum Love Life? Watch This CD"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s that candlelit dinner stage of the evening.\u00a0\u00a0 Soup through nuts, you’ve been your wonderful, genuine, self.\u00a0 And he\/she is pretty fantastic too.<\/p>\n

\"spectrum<\/a>
Spectrum of candle flame by diffraction in a CD (Photo:Tim Jones)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But why take chances – this is deal clinching time.<\/p>\n

With the table cleared, quick as a whippet<\/a> you pull out your Ethereal Collapse<\/em> CD, and with a flourish Newton would die for if he wasn’t already dead, guide your beloved’s eye to the spectacular demonstration of spectra by diffraction<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Your friend will by now be in a frenzy of excitement, so this is the moment to push them over the edge.<\/p>\n

Rushing through to the restaurant kitchen with a mix of urgency and discord normally reserved for Bond movies, you thrust your CD into the light once again.\u00a0 But now the disc reflects the chef’s fluorescent tube in an almost unbearably different, and extremely interesting way.\u00a0 The smooth continuum of the candle flame is gone!\u00a0 Now superposition bands stand proud, where line discharge spectra from gaseous mercury inside the lamp combine with the continuous spectra emitted from the phosphor coating.<\/p>\n

\"Spectrum<\/a>
Spectrum of fluorescent lamp by diffraction in a CD (Photo: Tim Jones)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At this point, you’ll almost certainly be offered complimentary Cognacs – if only to leave the kitchen.\u00a0\u00a0 But by now you’ll both be itching to get off anyway, back to his\/her flat to repeat the experiments under controlled conditions.\u00a0 Or maybe play some Scrabble.<\/p>\n

Note: Humphry Davy was up for colour ploys (Link to ‘Humphry Davy \u2013 Finding Love in the Colourful Age of Romantic Science’)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s that candlelit dinner stage of the evening.\u00a0\u00a0 Soup through nuts, you’ve been your wonderful, genuine, self.\u00a0 And he\/she is pretty fantastic too. But why take chances – this is deal clinching time. With the table cleared, quick as a whippet you pull out your Ethereal Collapse CD, and with a flourish Newton would die … Continue reading Want a Full Spectrum Love Life? Watch This CD<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[567,568,11],"tags":[1274,1273,1398,1272,815],"class_list":["post-13635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experiments","category-fun","category-physics","tag-diffraction-grating","tag-diffraction","tag-physics","tag-spectra","tag-spectrum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/candle-spectrum-764x10241.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkpOr-3xV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13635"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17749,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13635\/revisions\/17749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}