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Creation Day One: "Let there be light!"
Our eyes can only detect a tiny part of the electromagnetic spectrum called visible light . The different wavelengths of visible light gives us our spectrum of colors .
These are the wavelength's of each color of white light measured in nanometers (nm) .
How The Human Eye Sees Color
Sir Isaac Newton was the first person to observe that color is not a built-in characteristic of an object . When we say something has a particular color, what we actually mean is that one of the six wavelength's of white light (listed above) are being reflected by the object's surface more than other five wavelengths of white light. The reason an apple appears red is that the surface of the apple is reflecting the wavelengths we see as red and absorbing the other five wavelength colors (orange, , green, blue, violet) of white light.
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