What is the difference between artificial light and natural light?
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Artificial light needs energy to generate light. Natural light is self-generated light with or without energy.
Artificial Light is a scam put on by the government.
Artificial light has less calories but has been known to cause cancer in lab rats.
Sunlight is natural light. Starlight, too.
Like @njnyjobs said, artificial light is generated by the hand of man.
Do fireflies and glowing plutonium count as natural?
fireflies are natural, but glowing plutonium is man made. A candle light is man-made but brush fire caused by lightning is natural.
Artificial light is made in a factory. Natural light is made by the Keebler Elves.
Sunlight covers a broad, continuous spectrum of wavelengths associated with the sun’s so-called blackbody radiation at a characteristic temperature. Think rainbows & prisms.
Artificial lights, especially super-bright street lamps, instead generate a small number of wavelengths (emission lines in a prism) which, when mixed together in your eye, look yellowish- or bluish-white. LEDs are even more wavelength-specific (white consists of a red-green-blue triplet of diodes). Incandescent lamps have a continuous (blackbody) spectrum but far narrower and yellower than the sun’s. Fluorescent lamps now use phosphors that emit a fairly broad spectrum, compared to older lights that were harsh because they mainly contained blue & yellow without red and green.
Artificial light generally avoids the harmful effects of the sun’s ultraviolet rays.
Perhaps the most obvious difference between artificial and natural light: You can illuminate anything anywhere at anytime.
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