Blueberries, or blue berries?
Process of elimination...they are blue because they are not another color!
Besides, it in the name...
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Wonder if the wax could be used as a sunscreen if it could be put into a suitable carrier or binder or whatever for use on humans?
Why do we even need to know?
Wow. The world will rest easier tonight knowing this.
They are blue . . .because they’re blue?
The world is filled with many complex mysteries.
Today, English scientists helped me understand two of these mysteries.
1. Trees are old.
2. What makes blueberries blue.
Who knows what they will discover tomorrow?
Krylon?
Growing up just to be eaten as someone’s breakfast would make anyone sad.
-PJ
And how much money was spent on this study? Geez.
Glad that is answered.
Now, could someone tell me specifically what is the mystical “Redberry” that they tell me about in the breakfast cereal commercials?
For the same reason the sun is redder at sunset, and blueberries look blue.
Blue light is preferentially scattered to the side (In air, Raleigh scattering. ). When you look at the sky, you see the sunlight that was scattered to the side. That’s also why the sun looks redder in the morning and evening - the length of air the light passes through is longer at a low elevation over the horizon. The red tends to goes straight through and the blue tends to be scattered more. In a blueberry, the red goes on in and is absorbed, more blue is scattered and makes it back out.
The time has come,' the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax — Of cabbages — and kings — And why the sea is boiling hot — And whether pigs have wings.' ,