Color and Mood. ENERGY STAR certified bulbs are available in a wide variety of shades of white light, ranging from yellowish, to white, to bluish white light, which allows you to customize the mood of your space.
The eye detects visible light, the nerves detect infrared or heat and the skin is sensitive to ultraviolet ( tanning and sunburn ) and the lens of the eye develops cataracts in response to UV also. a human body can detect ionizing electromagnetic radiation, if he can see what his geiger counter is reading.
White light is dispersed by a prism into the colors of the visible spectrum. The visible spectrum is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation in this range of wavelengths is called visible light or simply light. A typical human eye will respond to wavelengths from about 390 to 700 nm.