There is no pink light
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We've all been told that the colors of the rainbow correspond to different wavelengthsof visible light - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Where's pink in that list?It's not there. There's simply no pink light.So where does pink come from? It turns out that pink, (or magenta, fuchsia, or whateveryou want to call it) is actually a mix of red and blue light - light from both endsof the rainbow that our brains see as one single color.If you try to roll up the rainbow to make a color wheel, there'll be a gap between redand blue. That's where all of the rest of the light in the universe is supposed to go- radio waves, microwaves, infrared, ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma rays, and so on. But since wecan't see an...
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We've all been told that the colors of the rainbow correspond to different wavelengthsof visible light - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Where's pink in that list?It's not there. There's simply no pink light.So where does pink come from? It turns out that pink, (or magenta, fuchsia, or whateveryou want to call it) is actually a mix of red and blue light - light from both endsof the rainbow that our brains see as one single color.If you try to roll up the rainbow to make a color wheel, there'll be a gap between redand blue. That's where all of the rest of the light in the universe is supposed to go- radio waves, microwaves, infrared, ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma rays, and so on. But since wecan't see an...
