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THE MIRACLE IN THE ATOM

our world is, of course, the sun. Photons are diffused throughout space from
the sun at a speed of 300,000 km a second.
When these photons, arriving on earth from the sun, strike the atoms of

objects on earth, the electrons of atoms sometimes begin their travel. If the
electrons that are able to travel by the help of this energy rise to a higher
energy shell and then return to their own shell, they emit a photon that is to
form the colour that will meet our eye. Each one of these processes summa-
rized in the few sentences above has been continuing since the outset of cre-
ation without fail. Every step runs under a great plan and to order. If only
one part of this interaction between electrons and photons had not worked,
this would cause a colourless, dark universe.
Let us again list these steps that have to work according to plan and in
order for the formation of a universe with colours instead of a dark one.
◆ Light coming from the sun to the earth diffuses in the form of pho-
ton particles. These photon particles scattered around the earth strike
atoms of matters.
◆ Photons cannot travel a long way inside the atoms. They strike the
electrons circling the nucleus.
◆ Electrons absorb these photons that strike them.
◆ When the electrons take in the energy of the photons they absorb,
they jump to another shell having a higher level of energy.
◆ These electrons try to return to their original states.
◆ As they return to their own shells, they emit an energy charged pho-
ton.
◆ These photons emitted by the electrons determine the colour of that
object.
To sum up, the colour of an object in fact consists of a mixture of these
light particles that are absorbed, then emitted by this object, and reach our
eyes. The colour of an object that does not emit light itself but reflects the
light it receives from the sun depends both on the light it receives and the
change it makes on this light. If the object illuminated with white light appe-
ars "red", this is because it absorbs a large portion of the mixture that arrives
to it from the sunrays and emits only red. By saying "it absorbs", we mean

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