Re: Favourite colour

Kevin Mulligan wrote:
> 
> On 15 Aug 2005, at 11:15, Mrten wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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?
>>
> 
> I'm not entirely sure why the sky is blue.  To be consistent in my  
> argument I would say that one or more of the atmospheric layers  
> possesses the characteristic falsely known as "sky blue".
> 
> Air, I believe, has no colour which is apparent when it condenses and  
> forms mist or clouds which are typically white although the presense  of 
> excess water (which, as refraction shows, contains myriad colours)  can 
> turn them black.
> 
> As you can see, my argument makes perfect sense.

No, this is all just the conventional thinking. The actual way it works
is that objects give off particles of the element "colour" (element 1024
in the periodic table) which have differing numbers of "clourites"
attached to them (a bit like electons) which determine how the actual
colour looks.

Hope it helps.

Matt

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