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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It’s actually all just white light at different wavelengths, which tricks your brain into seeing different “colours”.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

White light is the combination of all those wavelengths. It is only the combination that makes it "white" in exactly the same way that a smaller range of wavelengths are "red" or "blue".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Making your brain do exactly what it's supposed to do is a weird way is "tricking" it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

no actually it's white light with different phase shifts and because the earth is flat, the surface temperature of the sun tricks your brain into thinking it is red