Instead of explaining to my daughter that Santa does not exist, I decided to tell her that The Sun is not actually yellow plus a bunch of unnecessary explanations about the emitting spectrums of light and ended up in a circle of questions from which there is no escape 2nd day. I know the complex scientific explanation, but can someone help me explain it to my *almost* 5-year-old daughter?
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Your eyes don’t scale every wavelength of light evenly. We evolved under the sun’s green-peak spectrum and equalize that out in our brains by amplifying reds and blues and muting yellows.
An alien might insist that *their* star is white and ours is visibly green, having evolved to balance the light of a different star.
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