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 sounds. "The Colours of Life" was influenced by what Michael Silver described as "some really cornball music." Silver wanted to make music similar to the song "Hand in Hand" by English singer Phil Collins; he intended to produce "call waiting background music, just the most pleasant thing and kind of trying to push to the edges of tolerable cheese in some places, but also have it be totally sincere and not ironic, like actually purely pleasurable music." He wanted "The Colours of Life" to have the vibe of a "weird, transporting nostalgia" to "faded media memories of utopia." In making