• Optional@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Right, but in real-life, not in producing a lighted color, just like looking: things are brown. A coffee stain, say.

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      8 hours ago

      If you were to point a spectrometer at something brown like a tree trunk you would see wavelengths corresponding to red and green light. That’s what I mean when I say brown only exists in our perception; there is no wavelength of light corresponding to the color brown.