it just represents something that he’s imposing upon the color spectrum by analogy with music.” Of his rainbow experiment Newton wrote that he had projected white light through a prism onto a wall and ...

A groundbreaking achievement by physicists from Imperial College London has brought new insights into quantum physics by ...

White light is made of a spectrum of different colours ... a process called dispersion. This experiment is recorded as first being carried out by Isaac Newton, after an outbreak of bubonic ...