Some animals can see higher or lower in the light frequency spectrum than humans. Have you ever tried to imagine what kind of colors they were seeing? Humans can only see 10% of the red color frequency for instance.
2007-05-09 04:44:34 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Great question! I'm slightly colourblind, have difficulties with grey vs purple (weird one, I know) and green vs yellow mostly. I wonder what even the 'normal' colours look like, because I know I can't see them properly. Very few people know I can't distinguish all colours humans should be able to, because I look at the colour around the one I can't distinguish and fake knowing what colour it is which most often works. Also, I'm a scuba diver and red is the first colour that the light absorbs usually at around 30' and I've taken some pictures of dull-looking reef about 50' down and when I get the photos back it turns out that it was a bright red reef and some of the parrot fish have much more red than I realize. It would be amazing to be able to see even more of the frequency, I'm sure it would change a lot in this world!
2007-05-09 05:09:39 · answer #1 · answered by giacarangi_99 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah, you have opened an interesting question! I am guessing you haven't yet taken a University Physics course. The phenomenon you are talking about is closely related to something called Newtons Rings. To explain briefly, if you take a CLEAR cd and hold it up to light, you can see a similar pattern forming in rings. If you take a piece of rounded piece of glass and do the same thing it works even better. Anyway, what is happening is that regular white light has many wavelengths in it. It's basically a big bundle of red, blue, green etc. light mixed into one. You've probably heard that white light is the presence of ALL colours, and black is the absence of any colours. Well what is happening is that the light is bouncing off the CD, and some light is reflected (bounced back) and some refracted bounces through) the thin layer of protection that is on the CD. Depending on the thickness of this layer, different colours are filtered out through destructive interference, leaving only one color leaving. This is why you see the colours of the rainbow. If you look at CD reflection from, say, a lightbulb light, you will see many colours. If you see the reflection from the sun, you are seeing all the true colours of the rainbow, because it is the sun's light that reflects and refracts off rain particles and water vapour in the atmosphere to cause the effect. HA, sorry for the huge story, but now you have a background.
2016-05-19 00:05:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and thinking about things like that will cause my brain to explode! When you think of things such as color only being relative in relation to light, does that then mean that there is no color in darkness? Or are things still colored in darkness, or do they only retain color when reacted with light? Then it all turns into a question of reality and existance which, in my opinion, will probably never be answered.
2007-05-09 04:52:06 · answer #3 · answered by icecremeassasin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DULL. Have you ever been outside on a really bright day and then walked inside? You notice it's dark and colors all run together and look kind of blah. That's how it would be.
Or maybe it would look awesome and that's probably the right answer. When we are ready for that, it would be cool.
2007-05-09 05:00:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I do, too! I think ultraviolet would appear as almost a black-purple, and infrared would appear as almost a black-red. I'm thinking "purple" and "red" because those are the colors that are the last colors we can see in the visible spectrum. And almost "black" because the purple and red tend to look darker as they disappear out of our vision range.
2007-05-09 05:03:44 · answer #5 · answered by Tina Goody-Two-Shoes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, I am colored impaired. I can still see colors but certain reds appear orange or brown to me, I have run into some people who ask me why don't I memorize the names of the colors and learn them but they CHANGE on me. Blue and greens change on me as well and purples just depend where they are.
2007-05-17 01:44:53 · answer #6 · answered by Gardner? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow i think about that all the time, i also wonder if nothing existed what would it look like...like it cant b just all white cause white doesnt exist ethier.
2007-05-09 04:52:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope, i never really thought about it before. i don't really think that's it's something that we can honestly imagine though.
2007-05-09 04:52:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow, i didn't know that...
2007-05-17 01:52:17 · answer #9 · answered by shooflydontbotherme123 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋