Amazing Light, Part One Light is amazing! It is not a pure colour! Light contains all the colours in the rainbow. Just look at the table in front of you:# a red box, a green pencil, a blue notebook. The light comes in from the window. It hits the red box. The box absorbs all the colours in light, except red. The red part of the light,# bounces off the box, into your eyes. So what you see is a red box! The same thing is happening# with the green pencil and the blue notebook. And it all happens as quick as a flash. Or rather, as quick as light! Did you realize that light travels# really, really, really fast? Sound travels fast too,# but not as fast as light.