Lumière
La lumière est l’ensemble des ondes électromagnétiques visibles par l’œil humain, c’est-à-dire comprises dans des longueurs d’onde de 380 nm (violet) à 780 nm (rouge). La lumière est intimement liée à la notion de couleur. C’est Isaac Newton qui propose pour la première fois au XVIIe siècle un cercle des couleurs chromatiques fondé sur la décomposition de la lumière blanche. Elle peut se mesurer en lux.

Light
Light or visible light is the portion of electromagnetic radiation that is visible to the human eye, responsible for the sense of sight. Visible light has a wavelength in a range from about 380 or 400 nanometres to about 760 or 780 nm, with a frequency range of about 405 THz to 790 THz. In physics, the term light often comprises the adjacent radiation regions of infrared (at lower frequencies) and ultraviolet (at higher), not visible to the human eye.
Primary properties of light are intensity, propagation direction, frequency or wavelength spectrum, and polarisation, while its speed, about 300,000,000 meters per second (300,000 kilometers per second) in a vacuum, is one of the fundamental constants of nature.
Light, which is emitted and absorbed in tiny “packets” called photons, exhibits properties of both waves and particles. This property is referred to as the wave–particle duality. The study of light, known as optics, is an important research area in modern physics.

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