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How do the eyes see colour?

From what i think i understand about the way the eye works, we have cells which can identify either red, blue or green light, which i guess corresponds to a certain wavelength (475nm, 510nm, 650nm), yet yellow light, for example, has a wavelength of 570nm. Is this picked up only partially by red and green receptors? If this is the case, technology using 3 colours of pixels in screens must be perfectly adapted to human eyes, yet a new type of television has been released with a yellow pixel as well. Would that offer any advantage to colour perception, or is it just smoke and mirrors?

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Tags: colour, energy, perception, wavelength, eye, photons, Spectrum.

 

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Why do fluorescent bulbs flash yellow when smashed?

If you have a current going through a fluorescent bulb tube and you smash it, for a split second there is a yellow flash as the gas escapes. What I'm wondering is what causes the yellow flash if the light coming out originally is a mix of colours that make white light?

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  • Asked by halflife
  • on 2010-09-08 22:53:11
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Tags: light, electricity, electrons, photons, ions.

 

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Is there any way to store light in its raw form? i.e without converting it to electricity and then back into light again.

If I make a box out of mirrors, then open the box in order to to let light in, then I close the box. Why does light not stay stored in the box?

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  • Asked by tavis
  • on 2010-07-04 12:31:29
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Categories: Our universe.

Tags: light, photons, reflection, mirror, box.

 

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Infinitely bright lightbulb?

A man looks at a small lit lightbulb, 5m away. He perceives it as being of a certain luminosity.

A woman looks at the same bulb from a different point 5m away. All things being equal, she will perceive it as having the same luminosity.

There are an infinite number of points from which the bulb could be observed. Does that mean the bulb actually has infinite luminosity?

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  • Asked by mkomor
  • on 2009-08-04 15:40:46
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Categories: Domestic Science.

Tags: light, photons, luminosity.

 

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