06-07-2016, 10:40 AM
@Achebe and @quixilated - Glad you liked it. Making fancy eggs on Sunday mornings is sort of a tradtion at my house.
@DavidF - I'm not exasperated, except in the sense that an old, non-practicing physicist such as myself sighs when people talk about "centrifugal force." (There is only centripetal force and angular momentum, but the two, together, present the appearance of a mysterious centrifugal force.)
The problem is not a filter, but the emission spectrum of the twisty (CFL) bulb:
![[Image: sunIncandLEDCFL_lightbulb-wars-00-0911-x...21615p.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v71/UnknownVT/CPF/sunIncandLEDCFL_lightbulb-wars-00-0911-xln-42221615p.jpg)
The twisty bulb only emits on the frequencies represented by those three peaks, which correspond to photons emitted when energized electrons fall back from an available state back to a lower one (the nature of fluoresence). The low background light is from the inner coating inside the twisty bulb to smooth things out a little (knocks off different wavelengths when hit by the limited lines from the fluorescent source - plus heat effects).
Incandescent bulbs emit over a steady (but not uniform) range because they're boiling off photons from heat - the Sun's the same way, but has even more elements doing fusion dances that emit a great variety of colors/frequencies, plus a lot of atmosphere to act as the smoothing coating of the CFL twisty.
In short, the CFL is a little crude. Just read today that a way has been found to add a secondary filament or mirror to tradtional tungsten (incadescent) bulbs which can make them even more efficient than LED "bulbs" (and both more natural, i.e. Sun-like, and more efficient than twisties).
Please pardon the lecture.
I'm not exasperated, no, not at all!! 
@DavidF - I'm not exasperated, except in the sense that an old, non-practicing physicist such as myself sighs when people talk about "centrifugal force." (There is only centripetal force and angular momentum, but the two, together, present the appearance of a mysterious centrifugal force.)
The problem is not a filter, but the emission spectrum of the twisty (CFL) bulb:
The twisty bulb only emits on the frequencies represented by those three peaks, which correspond to photons emitted when energized electrons fall back from an available state back to a lower one (the nature of fluoresence). The low background light is from the inner coating inside the twisty bulb to smooth things out a little (knocks off different wavelengths when hit by the limited lines from the fluorescent source - plus heat effects).
Incandescent bulbs emit over a steady (but not uniform) range because they're boiling off photons from heat - the Sun's the same way, but has even more elements doing fusion dances that emit a great variety of colors/frequencies, plus a lot of atmosphere to act as the smoothing coating of the CFL twisty.
In short, the CFL is a little crude. Just read today that a way has been found to add a secondary filament or mirror to tradtional tungsten (incadescent) bulbs which can make them even more efficient than LED "bulbs" (and both more natural, i.e. Sun-like, and more efficient than twisties).
Please pardon the lecture.
I'm not exasperated, no, not at all!! (06-07-2016, 08:42 AM)DavidF Wrote:(06-07-2016, 05:48 AM)dukealien Wrote: Green TyrannyHi there, nice work I was right with you, looking forward to the meal.
fine food turned sickly by
a heinous, tyrant spectrum.
I am now going to exasperate you. The spectrum was not at fault, it is unchanging. The filter on the bulbs removed too much red and blue. Will anyone care except me ? I think I kind of hope not. Any way it just might be worth thinking about.
D.
Non-practicing atheist