Restructure according to the guidelines proposed in Wikipedia:WikiProject Science, ie. with the following main sections:
Introduction : importance of light for life and humans; brief history of the understanding of light; sources of light (man-made or natural)
Light in practice: (avoid theory here)
Types of light: normal(incandscent, fluorescent) HID (football stadium lights) New eco-watt fluorescent lights and how they change they way colors look., laser; visible vs infrared
Properties of light: Spectral characteristics, brightness, color, frequency, coherence, modulation, speed of light
Light in the Universe: appearance of light after big bang, sources of light, ...
Light in everyday life: How different light effect humans (depression), everyday sources, human eye
Light in industry: sources, conversion from/to electricity; some applications of light (laser, ...); application of optics
Light in science: spectroscopy, astronomy, interferometry (If tht were important, than it should be in those sections)
Light in theory: introduce quantum electrodynamics, explain how the current theory explains light and its applications
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Light was nominated as a good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (April 8, 2006). There are suggestions below for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.
Making a distinction between EM radiation and light seems a bit POVish to me. The only purpose seems to be to make a distinction between light and visible light. But there already is an article on visible light. Yes there are a number of cultural elements that don't really belong in a scientific article about light but these could be merged with visible light. Serendipodous08:12, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The book "Campbell, Biology" also states that the (for human beings) visible light ranges from 380-750, the german wikipedia entry says 380-780 though (but does not cite its source, unlike the article here). Can additional sources be added for this claim, at best scientific research or similar? 80.108.103.172 (talk) 17:24, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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