I’m still waiting for someone to tell me where the color is, in a universe made of colorless elementary particles.
The color is in your mind. Your brain creates the sensation of various colors based on the frequency of light coming into your eyes.
Technically, certain photons have colours. Our “colour” categories are excessively broad, but all photons can be described as having a particular colour, or being colourless.
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I’m still waiting for someone to tell me where the color is, in a universe made of colorless elementary particles.
The color is in your mind. Your brain creates the sensation of various colors based on the frequency of light coming into your eyes.
Technically, certain photons have colours. Our “colour” categories are excessively broad, but all photons can be described as having a particular colour, or being colourless.