This may surprise you but colours don’t exist.
The combination of our eyes and brain presents us with spectacular colours but surprisingly everything in the Universe is colourless.
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Colour only exists in regard to living things that have evolved sensory light-collecting cells. Other species will see colours differently from us.
Depending on how their eyes have evolved other animals will see the light spectrum in a different way from us.
Objects don’t have colours, we perceive colours, by how light bounces off an object and enters our eyes, from our eyes signals go to our brain which gives a certain object a familiar colour.
Other species of animals will have better or poorer vision than humans depending on how their light-sensing eyes have evolved.
The amazing range of complex eyes.
Light is something we take for granted, we give it little thought as we go through our daily lives.
Within the broad spectrum of light, gamma rays are at one end with short wavelengths, and radio waves with longer wavelengths at the other end. Within…
