Week 5 - Impression of Links

I really liked the first site. It always fascinates me that objects, atoms absorb light and therefore color. The second site was great because I didn't really understand anything about incandescence and luminescence. My parents live on the ocean and we have an inlet where we launch our kayaks. In the summer, we go down to the dock and stir the water to see the phosphorescence in the algae. I never realized this was energy being stored and slowly released as photon energy. Swimming in this water at night is always invigorating but now I wonder if some how we are absorbing some of the released energy?