Talk:Spectrum
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A conjecture: Is it because dispersed light that had passed through a prism looked ghostly that the word spectrum was introduced into the physical sciences? Michael Hardy 00:05, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Page move
This is a very large dis-ambiguation page. Can anyone move this page to Spectrum (disambiguation) and Optical spectrum here?? 66.245.84.65 23:28, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I don't think optical spectrum should be moved here. The optical spectrum is only the spectrum of visible light. The word spectrum is used far more generally than that even if one restrict discussion to electromagnetic waves. X-rays and radio waves also belong to the electromagnetic spectrum. Michael Hardy 00:09, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Reverse page move
This page used to contain a nice article on the general concept of the spectrum. Someone seems to have overwritten that article by doing a copy-paste move of the former Spectrum (disambiguation) to this page. I propose to reverse have reversed this non-consensual copy/paste move and restored the original article. Comments?--Srleffler 20:17, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
