Color does not exist in the real world

Color does not exist in the real world, continue reading below for another explanation – To understand this, you must understand that there is a difference between an object having the inherent quality of colour and that object’s ability to reflect light at different wavelengths, based on its atomic structure, giving it the appearance of colour. Any given object will reflect light at a particular wavelength giving it the appearance of colour, even though none of its atoms actually posses the quality of that colour. Take a red apple, for example. The skin of the apple, when viewed in white light, will absorb most frequencies of incoming light and reflect back only red frequencies. The apple is not actually red. In fact, red light is not actually red. It is merely light of a certain frequency that we have evolved to interpret as red (the same goes for any other color within the visible light spectrum, for that matter). Look closer at that apple skin. Closer. Closer. Eventually you will see only atoms. Atoms made of protons, neutrons and electrons, none of which are inherently red. Instead, you will find atoms with electron shells emitting invisible EM radiation (light) at the frequency we call red. Our eyes capture this reflected light and cone cells at the back of the eyes respond to the incoming light, sending electrical signals to brain which creates an image in our consciousness, with appropriate colors. In our mind, the apple appears red, even though it is not actually red.


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