{"id":3638,"date":"2009-04-30T09:39:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T09:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/04\/30\/dorky-poll-favorite-wavelength\/"},"modified":"2009-04-30T09:39:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T09:39:32","slug":"dorky-poll-favorite-wavelength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/04\/30\/dorky-poll-favorite-wavelength\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorky Poll: Favorite Wavelength"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have two labs today, and a lunch meeting, so no time for detailed blogging about science. It’s been a while since I did a Dorky Poll, though, so here’s one to keep people entertained while I’m working:<\/p>\n

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What’s your favorite color?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“What’s dorky about that?” you ask. You need to give your answer in wavelength units<\/strong>. For extra bonus dorky points, specify an atomic transition of approximately that wavelength.<\/p>\n

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Personally, I’m kind of partial to the blue-green lines in helium, right around 501 nm. That’s a nice color. The violet line in the hydrogen spectrum, around 435 nm, is also pretty good.<\/p>\n

So what’s your favorite wavelength?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have two labs today, and a lunch meeting, so no time for detailed blogging about science. It’s been a while since I did a Dorky Poll, though, so here’s one to keep people entertained while I’m working: What’s your favorite color? “What’s dorky about that?” you ask. You need to give your answer in… Continue reading Dorky Poll: Favorite Wavelength<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-science","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}