Colours are the way our brain, by use of our eyes, interprets electromagnetic radiation of a wavelenght between 350 and 750 nanometers. Different wavelengths are seen as different colours, as in the spectrum below.
We also have the colour wheel, which is explained next.
Primary Colours:
The primary colours are red, yellow and blue. All other colours can be created by mixing these three colours.
Secondary Colours:
The secondary colours are what you get when you mix any two adjacent primary colours. Red and green give yellow, red and blue give you magenta and a mix of green and blue result in a cyan colour.
Tertiary Colours:
The tertiary colours are those which lie in between the primary and secondary colours.
At the end we can also look at colours in a wheel format as many do, and we get this picture.
We also learned that when light passes through a prism you get the rainbow or different colours and by combining all colours together we get white. We see black because it does not emit any light (absrobs light).
Now that we have that background, my thoughts yesterday wandered to the colour of humans. We always see black people, brown people, yellow people, pale people, etc., but how come we do not have blue coloured people, or green coloured people? Did we ever have those and were they eliminated naturally over time? Or can we get through some genetic modification blue people?
My second thought was on the colour of people today, since we see colours physically as explained earlier because of light emmitence and absorbance, does that mean we might not be really different colour wise? Are we all made with one colour base, but because of our eye formation, phyiscal surroundings and such we tend to see people coloured differently?
So to conclude, what is the colour of Purgatory?
Purgatorian Post #864
