#light spectrum

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Science, High School, Optics

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Electromagnetic Radiation exists on a spectrum, just like gender. Indeed, it can be divided into three segments (seen left to right in the image below)

Infrared - low energy, large wavelength (radio, microwave, heat)

Visible Light - the very short range of wavelengths that human eye cells can detect, (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet)

Ultraviolet - high energy, short wavelength (X-ray, gamma rays, and UV light obviously)

But which gender is more like which segment of the EM spectrum? Consider these three possible models.

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Which is your favorite model of the Electromagnetic Gender Spectrum? (be sure to explain your choice)

IR=male, UV=female, 🌈=queer

IR=female, UV=male, 🌈=queer

IR+UV=queer, 🟥=masc, 🟦=fem

Voting ended onFeb 8

Example arguments below the cut

In our society, masculinity is seen as the default. And since heat, radio, and cosmic background radiation are all part of the IR spectrum, it only makes sense to assign masculinity as infrared.

Women have always been treated as invisible for most of the history of the civilized world. So there's no way that femininity could be part of the visible light spectrum. It feels like the only time women are ever made visible is when they can fail to do something, much like x-rays passing through soft tissue but failing to pass through bone. Thus, one might assign femininity to the ultraviolet Spectrum.

Toxic masculinity is a serious problem, and gamma rays are the most damaging of all kinds of light, So it makes sense to assign masculinity to the ultraviolet Spectrum.

Queer is an all-encompassing title that was invisible to our society up until very recent times. It's only in the Advent of modern technology that things like radio and microwave and x-ray were even understood to be useful, and this is historically about the same time that gender criticism and transsexuality were being explored in the west. And since men and women so often choose to fall into such a narrow array of roles for themselves, it only makes sense to assign the masculine and feminine genders each to half of the visible light spectrum and allow the queer gender identities to have all the rest of it.

There are so many ways of expressing masculinity in so many ways of expressing femininity that one should not try to encapsulate them within the narrow band of the visible light spectrum. They should each be allowed to be expansive.

↑ nah bro, there's only like three kinds of male: red, orange, and maybe yellow if you're a beta cuck.

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Table of Spectra. Spectrum analysis in its application to terrestrial substances, and the physical constitution of the heavenly bodies. 1872.

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Phytochromes: The 'eyes' that enable microalgae to find their way in aquatic depths

The phytoplankton that populate oceans are known to play a key role in marine ecosystems and climate regulation. Like terrestrial plants, th

"The phytoplankton that populate oceans are known to play a key role in marine ecosystems and climate regulation. Like terrestrial plants, they store atmospheric CO₂, and produce half of our planet's oxygen via photosynthesis. However, the mechanisms that control their distribution remain poorly understood.

By studying the light perception process of diatoms, a group of phytoplankton, scientists from the CNRS and Sorbonne University discovered that these microalgae use light variation sensors which are codified in their genomes: phytochromes.

These photoreceptors enable them to detect changes in the light spectrum in the water column, thereby providing information regarding their vertical position within it. This function is especially important in turbulent aquatic environments subject to substantial water mixing—such as high latitude, temperate, and polar regions—in order to adjust their biological activity, in particular photosynthesis."

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Minute Earth including Hestu in this tree graph added a few minutes to my lifespan.

Video here. It was very interesting.