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 "The Colours of Life," he also garnered inspiration from the works of label Windham Hill, Manuel Gottsching and Suzanne Ciani, as well as Balearic music. Michael Silver began creating "The Colours of Life" on a laptop in the first half of 2011 while living in a Paris apartment. When writing the first song for what was initially planned to be an album titled "The Colours of Life", Silver felt it should "morph" into another track "for whatever reason." He then kept making songs that transitioned into other tracks until he created a 40-minute piece of "12 pure pop instrumentals" that