eli5: why do we use red green blue instead of the primary colours for light

Question

i kinda understand the difference between subtractive and addictive colours but i don’t understand why we use green instead of yellow for lights

In: Other

Answer 1

Because the red-blue-yellow primaries you learnt in primary school are wrong. Just one of the many, many, many[ lies to children](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie-to-children) you were told then.