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To: DUMBGRUNT

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/11/color-pink-doesnt-exist-can-see/

Absent from the visible spectrum and neither a wave nor a particle, the color pink is, for many, a scientific enigma:


14 posted on 11/18/2023 8:09:37 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

An interesting article, even though Pointillism and the sewer rat guy make my brain hurt! Still, very cool stuff.

From your link,“Pink is real – or it is not – but it is just as real or not-real as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.”

Reminds me of a footnote from The Odyssey, Ancient Greeks could see the color blue, but they didn’t consider it to be separate from other colors like green and purple. They didn’t have a word for blue. They called the ocean wine dark.

Also fun discussions on the color brown.


26 posted on 11/18/2023 8:54:52 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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