Light, as a subject
Before light became the inspiration for a piece of music, it was part of TK’s everyday life. A graduate student in physics in South Korea, TK researches the properties of materials using light.
The road was not an easy one. Experiments failed again and again, and results were slow to come. In a lab, failure doesn’t always arrive with a dramatic moment. Sometimes it simply means trying again, day after day, until the tiredness builds up and confidence in the future starts to waver.
In the image on the right, light reveals a fascinating phenomenon: when white light passes through a glass prism, each colour is bent at a slightly different angle. What looked like a single light breaks into a whole spectrum of colours — colours that were there all along, hidden in white.
Move across the light to tilt the beam. An illustration of a classic experiment — not an image from TK’s lab.
