[ELI5] What determines which color an object is?
In: Physics
Tricky question.
I agree with previous answers about light….BUT “Color” is very subjective .
It’s only available to the receptors present.
What does red look like to a “color” blind person they still see a color…just not your color…..
Insects see in UV spectrum, flowers glow under the UV light/UV cameras as bright targets…..but to us its pure white because we lack the visual receptors.
Your sensory receptors LIMIT your senses. Imagine if you could see all the EM spectrum radio waves to xray…..or could hear every sound…..
Your brain would melt.
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