What color is purple?

Question

W L: provocation?
jim darwin: i used to do that
jim darwin: now im more "focused"
jim darwin: i think the reality is i have a following
jim darwin: if i ask something stupid like heh what color is poop people wont answer
jim darwin: but you know
jim darwin: theres a line
W L: What if you ask, "what color is purple?" How would they respond?
jim darwin: lets find out

Answer 1

That is totally subjective, I'd say royal...as I define color.

Answer 2

A mix of red and blue. It is the lowest level of visible light on the spectrum. It is energy traveling from atom to atom, and purple is just the color you see when the light is at a certain length. I guess that was not the point to your question, but why not give it a go. I do not know who W L is, but I guess you are not tooo focused to provoke now. I say people would answer to the poop thing, because that is true provocation is the sense that it causes an emotional reaction as poop Q's especially in the religion section are seen as offensive. Provoking is not about responses of logic and fact, but about provoking emotion, and purple just does not do it. The line is not as you may think. When seeing what people will respond to, more will jump on something that catches their feelings, not knowledge. If it is offensive, or involves beliefs/ things they can relate to they like to answer.

Answer 3

wow I am amazed at these other answers! He asked "What color is purple" and everyone else's answer was to give him an object (be it tangible or not) that was the color of purple.

The question is an ironical question.
Purple is the combination of two primary colors. Red and Blue. So I guess your answer is that the color of purple is red and blue. it isnt a single color. And it's shades are determined by the percent of red versus blue.

Yo estoy brillante muy!

Answer 4

Purple is many things. One,its the face of a human when their constapated. Two, A black eye. Three, A Elderlies foot when its gone through so much aging that it cant age anymore. And finally, its Red and Blue

Answer 5

Reddish blue, an example would be Violet.

Violet is emblematic of humility and self-abasement. It is used in Advent because penitence is the natural attitude of a world waiting to be redeemed. It is used in Lent, as most suitable for seasons of fasting and humiliation.

Answer 6

Purple is the color of a heart beating slower, slower, hardly moving at all, when someone you love slips through your fingers like sand.

Answer 7

About 400 nm

Answer 8

Technically, purple is a secondary color that is the result of mixing red and blue, to primary colors together. So does this then begat the questions "What color is red?" and "What color is blue?"

Answer 9

The color purple is our retina's perception of how it sees visible light in it's shortest wavelength.

Answer 10

To the color blind and the true blind purple does not exist.
If they were not the minority do you think you could convince them it does?

Answer 11

plum
grapes
lilacs
lower-most shade on a rainbow
Elizabeth Taylor's eyes
Purple Martin (bird)
eggplants

http://images.google.com/images?q=purple+flower&hl=en&lr=&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=beautyberry&sa=N&tab=wi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrian_purple

But I don't think that you have a following.