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Thank you We sneak just about everyone is jealous of

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bobby Why wouldn't you be he's a big beautiful brilliant

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purple fireworks as long as part of him doesn't land

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on your picnic basket pretty much booze needs And yet

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there's one fella who isn't impressed with bobby Bobby yeah

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despite how much everyone loves him Bobby's jealous of billy

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an equally big equally beautiful equally brilliant red firework Every

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time the two are part of a firework display bobby

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dissipates while feeling a bit hollow inside I could be

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read like billy Well one day he was chatting it

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up with bernie on orange firework being orange burning just

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felt lucky that anyone at all would talk to him

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I'm not getting the short end of the stick Orange

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fireworks are basically the black sheep of the firework clients

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But bernie told bobby something interesting He explained that the

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color of light emitted by a firework corresponds to the

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amount of energy released by electrons of a given element

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He went on to say that when an electron absorbs

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energy and jumps to a higher orbit iii in orbit

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further away from its atoms nucleus it becomes excited much

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In the same way you get excited if you heard

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The latest starwars movie was opening three months early Once

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the electron falls back to its original energy level or

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ground state it releases energy in the form of light

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bigger and jump The electron makes the more energy of

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releases when it falls back toward the nucleus Now here's

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where the conversation got interesting at least as far as

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bobby was concerned red light has the lowest energy while

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purple or violent life has the highest energy of visible

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light In other words bodies electrons were bouncing all over

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the place releasing large amounts of matter in order to

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produce that brilliant purple hue Well billy's electron Well this

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news thrilled bobby To no end Unfortunately billy was eavesdropping

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And now he's totally down in the notes Pretty much 00:01:54.617 --> [endTime] a textbook case of classic electrons

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