My mum said to me the other day that the grass isn't really green and its just the way we see it.?
Question:I dont understand. What colour is it then? or is it NO colour at all. IM CONFUSED :P my little brain may explode. Answer carefully! ha
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Actually your Mum is mostly right. All the objects around us; grass, sky, fav shirt, have their own optical qualities. OK white light is made up of all the colors of the rainbow put together. When that light hits an object some colors are absorbed and some are reflected back to our eyes. What we SEE is the colors that come back to us. Grass isn't really green it just reflects back green light.
Either the education I have been fortunate to receive has completely missed out this bit OR your mum might be ever so slightly wrong. (that's as far wrong as mum's can get).
I'd be interested to learn of the colour of grass, within our colour definitions and recognitions, should it not be green.
Maybe your "mum" had too much to drink that day...
plants contain cholophyll, which absorbs all the colours of the spectrum except fr green, which is the colour you see. (same goes for yellow, red plants, they dont use that colour)
I think you may find she is talking about your decisions in life. & not the actuall colour of grass !
Grass is and will always be green because that is the way nature created it. However, what you mum was trying to say to you is that don't be tempted by facade without exploring it or even without thinking very hard and carefully before jumping to conclusions.
Incidentally, scientists believe that if (I MEAN BIG IF) there is another planet similar to ours then it is very likely that grass and leaves may not necessarily be green. they could well be of different colour.
Your mother is absolutely correct.
In a real sense, nothing has colour, merely an ability to reflect certain colours, all of which are present in the spectrum.
So certain things only reflect blue, while others will reflect red or green and so on.
Things which appear to be white reflect all the colours of the spectrum (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet), while objects which reflect none of the colours appear to us to be black
Everything is "just the way we see it." Ask a colorblind person to describe a color that they cannot see and they can't because they've never seen what we see. All "colors" are simply reflected light- all of the colors of the spectrum are absorbed except for the ones that are reflected and give us the colors that we perceive.
Don't worry about it, sit back and enjoy the show!
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maybe it's under 2 foot of water like most places in the uk
Your mom does some interesting drugs.
Wow ! Your Mum is bordering on the metaphysical, and she is (arguably) correct. All colours are perceived via our mental and physical faculties, and how we `see` the vibrations of `colour` varies between individuals and other members of the animal kingdom. Some people do not, can not, and never ever `see` green. Colour (as others see it) possibly is unknown to dogs and cattle, fish and reptiles. Hypothetically, in other dimensions controlled by other `vibrations`, there are `colours ` that we have NEVER seen, a new palate of colours unknown to us. This is all "perhaps and maybe" but your Mum is definitely wasted on housework !
Its all to do with spectrum, the way light bends like in a prism.
Only its our eye that is the prism.
It is called refracted light. If the grass was any other colour, it would damage our eyes, yes as its a plant it has chlorophyll which absorbs all the colours apart from green which it shows.
So yes grass is a different colour, Mum is right.
I think your mum means that she does not see the sunshine much more and when flowers bloomed and the grass looked nice and green. I think she could be reminiscing.
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