08. OPTICALLY
PERCEIVED PROPERTIES OF MATTER
And now, after we have discussed, what constitutes the processes of emission
and reflection of elementary particles (including visible photons), let's consider the reasons for which we anyway
optically perceive substances of surrounding us bodies and environments.
All substances of the surrounding world depending on whether, can we or not
to see through them, should be divided into two main groups:
1) Transparent;
2) Opaque.
Coloration, shine or colourlessness in conjunction with the transparency or opacity - these are the optical properties of the substance and they manifest themselves during interaction of the moving elementary particles with chemical elements of the substance. The moving visible photons are compulsory for the manifestation of shine of the substance, but they are not necessary for the manifestation of the coloration of substance. In this latter case, the particles of other quality can replace them - for example IR or radio photons.
After we have identified the substance under investigation into one of
these groups, we should make one more classification. According to a second classification
all substances:
1) Or are painted in one of the six colors of the
spectrum (rainbow are
colored in one of the six colors of the spectrum (rainbow);
2) Or are colored in a mixture of two or more colors
of the spectrum;
3) Or are colorless;
4) Or white, or black, or combine both properties - gray;
5) Or have a metallic luster;
6) Or combine coloration with glitter;
7) Or combine colorless with glitter.Coloration, shine or colourlessness in conjunction with the transparency or opacity - these are the optical properties of the substance and they manifest themselves during interaction of the moving elementary particles with chemical elements of the substance. The moving visible photons are compulsory for the manifestation of shine of the substance, but they are not necessary for the manifestation of the coloration of substance. In this latter case, the particles of other quality can replace them - for example IR or radio photons.
The existence of substance coloration, shine or transparency is caused
by:
1) Features of qualitative and quantitative composition of chemical elements of the substance;
2) The quality of the bombarding particles.
Shine, transparency and most cases of coloration of substances, located
on the surface of celestial bodies of planetary type (i.e in conditions of sufficiently
low temperatures) are caused by reflection
and emission of visible photons.
