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Kayate wrote on 2012-03-12 22:31
It's the favourite of little girls the world over, associated with femininity, springtime and romance.
Yet scientists this have announced that the colour pink does not actually exist.
Well it does, but only in our minds.
The trouble lies in the fact pink is a combination of red and violet, two colours, which - if you look at a rainbow - are on the opposite sides of the spectrum. So it can’t exist in nature without bending the colours of the rainbow to allow red and violet to commingle, a theoretical impossibility.
As colour is a construct of our eyes and brains, when you look at a pink object you are not actually seeing pink wavelengths of light.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2112339/Sorry-girls-colour-pink-doesnt-exist-just-pigment-imagination.html
They've lied to us
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Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-03-12 22:33
Not news! But it's interesting anyway.
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Kayate wrote on 2012-03-12 22:37
Oh well I thought it was news
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Cynic wrote on 2012-03-12 22:43
...It doesn't exist, but it exists in our minds.
So in other words, yeah, it does exist.
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RicochetOrange wrote on 2012-03-12 23:19
Quote from Cynic;805402:
...It doesn't exist, but it exists in our minds.
So in other words, yeah, it does exist.
No. It doesn't exist
physically. It only exists
mentally.
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Taycat wrote on 2012-03-12 23:23
Then what do we call flowers that are pink?
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Kayate wrote on 2012-03-12 23:24
Red and violet flower?
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Taycat wrote on 2012-03-12 23:44
Quote from Kayate;805422:
Red and violet flower?
I think science just needs to stop doing things like this. It's wasting resources.
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whocares8128 wrote on 2012-03-13 00:11
Why is there no mention of brown or black?
So, pink doesn't exist (as a single wavelength of light). So what?
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Cannibal wrote on 2012-03-13 00:18
My entire life has been a lie...
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Episkey wrote on 2012-03-13 00:56
Quote from whocares8128;805482:
Why is there no mention of brown or black?
So, pink doesn't exist (as a single wavelength of light). So what?
This. There are many other colors that can fit within the same example as pink.
I suppose the article somewhat makes mention of this, but still ...
Why they have to pick on pink D:
Also, just something remotely funny I thought of:
Pink doesn't exist.
TA's name is in pink.
Ta's name doesn't exist!
:worry:
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Chiyuri wrote on 2012-03-13 01:06
Quote from Episkey;805528:
This. There are many other colors that can fit within the same example as pink.
I suppose the article somewhat makes mention of this, but still ...
Why they have to pick on pink D:
Also, just something remotely funny I thought of:
Pink doesn't exist.
TA's name is in pink.
Ta's name doesn't exist!
:worry:
Her name is simply an illusion.
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Milk wrote on 2012-03-13 01:13
So it doesn't exist because the color doesn't exist in a rainbow?
Le gasp.. rainbows are the source off all colors o_o
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ValkyrieHamster wrote on 2012-03-13 01:23
Quote from Chiyuri;805537:
Her name is simply an illusion.
TA is simply an illusion?!? OMG
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Chockeh wrote on 2012-03-13 01:49
Quote from whocares8128;805482:
Why is there no mention of brown or black?
So, pink doesn't exist (as a single wavelength of light). So what?
whocares8128?