Timeline for The color of an object, the atom releasing the photon back
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| Aug 8, 2021 at 12:33 | comment | added | curiosity | @user394334 refer the edited answer | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 18:34 | history | edited | curiosity | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2021 at 18:01 | comment | added | curiosity | The answer to this question perhaps lies somewhere between quantum biology(perception of colour by receptors that absorb certain frequencies and give us the sense of colour)and quantum physics.(I am yet to learn this stuff) A possible explanation; electron after receiving the energy may lose it in series or take different paths and jump to intermediate energy levels like the say from a higher excited state to second excited state and then maybe ground state leading to emission of different wavelengths as energy must be conserved. That’s probably the reason why we don’t observe red light above | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 11:09 | comment | added | user394334 | Thank you, so when a red photon gets aborbed, it may not be a red photon that gets released when the electron falls back to the lower energy state? I thought that "what goes in must come out" in a sense that if an electron moves up an energy state because of a red photon, and then falls back, the energy is the same, so then a red photon must come out, but I guess that might not be the case? | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 9:24 | history | edited | Urb | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2021 at 6:51 | comment | added | curiosity | Atoms after jumping to the higher energy state spontaneously fall back to the lower energy states and again absorb energy to get excited. The emitted light depends on factors like temperature of the object as stated above.At a given temperature we do not see any red light coming from the blue ball ( it wouldn't be blue ball anymore) also because of the reason @senor o stated. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 4:06 | comment | added | user394334 | Thank you very much, is then the simple explanation for example that a blue object will absorb red light, but when the electrons move to a lower energy state it may not be red light that is released? | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 3:26 | history | answered | curiosity | CC BY-SA 4.0 |