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The author explains his visualization as follows:

One is a red light, which has a wavelength of approximately 650 nm. The other is an infrared light, which has a wavelength of 950 nm. (Throughout our description, we will show the infrared light in light blue. In reality, infrared light is invisible to the human eye.)




The fact that those curves don't even come close to resembling sine waves seems more wrong to me, and really helps drive home the fact that the diagram was made in MS Paint with little regard for accuracy.




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