Russell: you wrote:
*Not really - the peak of the solar spectrum is yellow light. The IR and UV* *portions are relatively small components, and what little there is is further absorbed by water vapour and the ozone layer respectively.* Is ALL you do mean the SOLAR (!) spectrum we can detect with our instruments? Are you sure there is nothing else? Liz mentioned EM spectrum *total*. What is included in it beyond the above (as part of our unknowables)? John M On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 11:19:24PM +1200, LizR wrote: > > Is it possible that plants are actually efficient in other parts of the > > spectrum that we can't see? Maybe they utilise a lot of infra red and > > ultraviolet, and the fact that there is a missed opportunity in visible > > green is a relatively insignificant blip? > > > > After all we only see less than one light octave. There's a LOT of EM > > radiation out there we can't detect. > > > > Or am I barking up the wrong tree? :-) > > > > Not really - the peak of the solar spectrum is yellow light. The IR and UV > portions are relatively small components, and what little there is is > further > absorbed by water vapour and the ozone layer respectively. > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret > (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
