If the answer is YES, a related follow-up question: if each visible color of the spectrum were to measure a centimeter in width, how far would I have to move the sensor from the red to detect the change from infrared to microwave, then to radio?
In the knowledge that Sir William Herschel discovered infrared by repeating Newton’s experiment, but with a thermometer to measure the temperature of each component of the spectrum, and after placing the thermometer a bit to the side of the red light, in darkness, noticed quite by accident that the device would still register heat, therefore an invisible yet very real component of light was there, warming the thermometer.
That’s an excellent point that I’m not sure anyone considered here. I believe in air index of refraction is a function of (1/wavelength)^4. I didn’t remember if that’s broadly the case for other media/materials.
Isn’t that for Rayleigh scattering, not refraction?
Oof yes!