Rainbow which a glass prism could separate into the full spectrum of colours, rejecting the theory that the colours were produced by a modification of white light. He also showed that red light is refracted less than blue light, which led to the first scientific explanation of the major features of the rainbow. Newton's corpuscular theory of light was unable to explain supernumerary rainbows, and a satisfactory explanation was not found until Thomas Young realised that light behaves as a wave under certain conditions, and can interfere with itself. Young's work was refined in the 1820s by George Biddell Airy, who
The Colours of Life serve as its movements. As Silver explained, "It was fun for me because having 2-3 minutes per song and a larger structure meant I could write small simple chord progressions and melodies that I maybe wouldn’t have explored on single tracks, and it meant I could go and meander here and get really specific there." "The Colours of Life" was completed in the summer of 2011. Silver sent "The Colours of Life" to Matt Werth, the founder of the label RVNG Intl. which released the CFCF extended play "The River" (2010). Werth suggested to Silver lead vocalists should be added