• NigelFrobisher
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    5 months ago

    It’s actually all just white light at different wavelengths, which tricks your brain into seeing different “colours”.

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      5 months ago

      White light is the combination of all those wavelengths. It is only the combination that makes it “white” in exactly the same way that a smaller range of wavelengths are “red” or “blue”.

    • stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      no actually it’s white light with different phase shifts and because the earth is flat, the surface temperature of the sun tricks your brain into thinking it is red