Re: Favourite colour

On 15 Aug 2005, at 21:11, Matt Marsh wrote:

> 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.
>

Oh!  That makes perfect sense.

Thank you Eyecon, your physics know-how has solved yet another mystery.

> Hope it helps.
>
> Matt
>
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