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[โ€“] multifariace@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

wait, can visible light waves at thousands times larger than atoms interact with subatomic particles?

[โ€“] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Chromodynamics uses colour to represent the three charges of the strong field, like + and - for the one charge of the electromagnetic field. It rarely interacts with actually visible light.

Of course but with a huge wavelength, their frequency is very small. Small frequency means small energy so the effect of visible light is shadowed by other subatomic processes