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| From | jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.physics |
| Subject | Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? |
| Date | 2016-06-24 16:09 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> wrote: > jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: >> Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> I know that Newton pretended that there were seven colours in the >>> rainbow (presumably he didn't really believe it). It seems that English >>> school children are being taught that it's true: >> >> Perhaps because humans with normal color vision perceive a rainbow as >> having seven distinct color bands. > > Really?! Yes. For some reason I was thinking that there were 5 colors in a rainbow so I looked at a couple of pictures. I see 7 distinct bands and I know for a fact my color vision is perfectly normal. "Rainbows span a continuous spectrum of colours. Any distinct bands perceived are an artefact of human colour vision...". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow -- Jim Pennino
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Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2016-06-23 20:24 +0100
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-06-23 19:45 +0000
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2016-06-24 13:27 +0100
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-06-24 16:09 +0000
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2016-06-24 08:56 -0400
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-06-24 16:12 +0000
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2016-06-24 23:43 -0400
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-06-25 05:06 +0000
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2016-06-25 10:52 -0400
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-06-25 15:28 +0000
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2016-06-25 13:15 -0400
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-06-25 20:15 +0000
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2016-06-25 17:49 -0400
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Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-06-25 05:09 +0000
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2016-06-25 11:11 -0400
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-06-25 15:38 +0000
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Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-06-25 16:50 +0000
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2016-06-25 13:53 -0400
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-06-25 20:20 +0000
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2016-06-25 17:08 -0400
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-06-25 21:40 +0000
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2016-06-25 18:20 -0400
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-06-25 22:51 +0000
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-06-25 19:25 -0400
Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? Jerry Kraus <jkraus1999@gmail.com> - 2016-06-24 11:46 -0700
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