If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it.
Niels BohrOne thought spectra are marvellous, but it is not possible to make progress there. Just as if you have the wing of a butterfly then certainly it is very regular with the colors and so on, but nobody thought one could get the basis of biology from the coloring of the wing of a butterfly.
Niels Bohr