Re: Favourite colour

Om 00:57 op maandag 15 augustus 2005, Kevin Mulligan:

> You haven't explained anything, all you've done is regurgitate a poor
> textbook definition of light.  Why do wavelengths of light represent
> different colours?  If they really do, why can't the colours be seen
> as they pass through the air?

why is the sky (sky-)blue? isnt the sky really air?

> If white light really did contain every other colour then surely a
> room lit by the sun would be flooded with every possible colour?
> This is obviously not the case therefor the logical conclusion is
> that white light contains no colours and is not a colour, it only
> serves to illuminate objects and which will possess colours of their
> own.

to be really taken seriously as a philosopher, you need to be at least
42 years old, understand and be able to explain the relevance of that
number, have a foot-long beard, wear thick grey woollen socks in open
shoes and babble incomprehensibly.

i think fail at least two points of that definition (or do you?).

"do-not-stereotype" Mrten.
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