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How becomesdoes a wave become a color?

I am a mathematician and not a physicist, so please be gentle to me.

The best explanation so far that I found so far about light waves was here: https://youtu.be/7eutept5h0Q

If I got it right, then light is a particle without mass which has magnetic and electronicelectric energy and this energy is oscillating all the time. When one spotspots this particle, one sees a color which depends on the frequency of the oscillating energy. Is that correct?

Also every color in the below diagram may be observed by a single particle.

enter image description here

All other colorcolors that don't appear in the diagram (like white color) have to be a collection of light particles of differed frequencies which will appear to us as a single color?

How becomes a wave a color?

I am a mathematician and not a physicist, so please be gentle to me.

The best explanation so far that I found about light waves was here: https://youtu.be/7eutept5h0Q

If I got it right, then light is a particle without mass which has magnetic and electronic energy and this energy is oscillating all the time. When one spot this particle, one sees a color which depends on the frequency of the oscillating energy. Is that correct?

Also every color in the below diagram may be observed by a single particle.

enter image description here

All other color that don't appear in the diagram (like white color) have to be a collection of light particles of differed frequencies which will appear to us as a single color?

How does a wave become a color?

I am a mathematician and not a physicist, so please be gentle to me.

The best explanation I found so far about light waves was here: https://youtu.be/7eutept5h0Q

If I got it right, then light is a particle without mass which has magnetic and electric energy and this energy is oscillating all the time. When one spots this particle, one sees a color which depends on the frequency of the oscillating energy. Is that correct?

Also every color in the below diagram may be observed by a single particle.

enter image description here

All other colors that don't appear in the diagram (like white color) have to be a collection of light particles of differed frequencies which will appear to us as a single color?

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How becomes a wave a color?

I am a mathematician and not a physicist, so please be gentle to me.

The best explanation so far that I found about light waves was here: https://youtu.be/7eutept5h0Q

If I got it right, then light is a particle without mass which has magnetic and electronic energy and this energy is oscillating all the time. When one spot this particle, one sees a color which depends on the frequency of the oscillating energy. Is that correct?

Also every color in the below diagram may be observed by a single particle.

enter image description here

All other color that don't appear in the diagram (like white color) have to be a collection of light particles of differed frequencies which will appear to us as a single color?