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Anonymous at Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:18:38 UTC No. 16632721
If atoms emit light, why isn’t everything glowing all the time?
Even when atoms do emit light, the radiation might be in a wavelength we can’t see. For example, infrared (heat) and ultraviolet light are both types of electromagnetic radiation that are invisible to the human eye.
This explains why some people can see everything shinning.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:31:05 UTC No. 16632727
Because once they are in their ground state they can't emit light, and almost all atoms are in their ground state.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:34:04 UTC No. 16632729
>>16632727
They're always emitting light, but you cannot see it.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:38:01 UTC No. 16632731
>>16632729
Explain.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:41:46 UTC No. 16632732
>>16632731
It's not light in the spectrum that average people can see.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:47:05 UTC No. 16632735
>>16632731
Radio. You can't see it, so you have to listen.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:48:19 UTC No. 16632736
>>16632732
Ah, I see. Or rather, I don't see.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:49:01 UTC No. 16632739
>>16632732
Sure plenty of atomic energy level transitions are not in the visible spectrum but they aren't happening all the time. Thermal photons on the other hand are being emitted due to vibrations in molecules and lattices.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:50:08 UTC No. 16632740
>>16632735
You don't have to listen to it. You can observe and measure it with an RF detector and frequency anylizer. Same with TV signals, whatever
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:12:20 UTC No. 16632756
>>16632740
Is there a wave detector that detects ALL possible frequencies?
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:16:56 UTC No. 16632763
>>16632740
Why do you not trust your own senses?
Why do you need to artificially augment them?
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:52:12 UTC No. 16632785
>>16632763
Lol wut?
What are you even talking about all of a sudden?
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:55:23 UTC No. 16632791
>>16632721
Except in stars or plasmas, atoms don't normally emit photons. See attached explanation from DeepSeek for more info.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:56:33 UTC No. 16632794
>>16632721
>why isn't everything glowing all the time
It is. Shame you have monkey eyes.
>what do you mean heat is light?
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Mar 2025 17:20:15 UTC No. 16632842
>>16632785
Radio photons.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Mar 2025 18:25:01 UTC No. 16632936
>>16632727
>what is black-body radiation?
>seriously, what is it? idk.