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  • Blue light's at the short-wavelength end of the visible spectrum, so it should be less prone to scattering...
  • Re the balance between incoming short-wavelength incoming solar radiation (visible light) and outgoing long-wavelength IR (infrared), it seems to me that all the mathematical...
  • The temperature of radiation is just the average energy of the photons of which it is made, so the Earth needs to radiate twenty low-energy (long-wavelength, infrared) photons...
  • Macular pigment is thought to protect against AMD because it absorbs short-wavelength
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