Rainbow Light!

Here is a picture of my prism. Unfortunately I do not get any direct sunlight in my apartment, so it lives here against my wall. However, when it was hanging in my sliding class door at my house back in Lompoc where I'm from, it made the most beautiful rainbows! Rainbow light has always been my favorite form of light created on this earth. I find it incredibly fascinating how white light from the sun houses every color in the color spectrum, and how those colors can be dispersed when shown through a simple glass prism. How does it do that? I know there is some scientific way of explaining this distribution, but I like to think it's magic. I mean, on the scale of beautiful magical phenomenons, rainbows are pretty high up on the list right? Well they are for me at least. As I begin to learn more about lighting in this class, and how we as humans have learned to harness energy into lightbulbs to create light, I begin to gain a greater and greater appreciation for our sun. We've only been creating our own light (other than fire) for the past century, while the sun has been doing it for billions of years! Think of all those rainbows!