Possibly untrue science news

The animation in the article is particularly interesting.

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Impressive work.

But it does end up looking a bit like something I pulled out of my vacuum cleaner.

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Or a wooly worm!

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Now it all makes sense!

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Welcome to my world, says brown (orange). :wink:

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Everything is an illusion

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That article did kind of a terrible job of explaining why (regular, non-ultra) violet isn’t the same thing as purple. It makes it sound like they’re visually identical to our senses but one is real and one isn’t, which doesn’t help me wrap my head around this at all.

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Yeah, that article is being needlessly confusing. By those standards we wouldn’t see orange either, we see a combination of mostly L cones and some M cones that we interpret as orange…the difference is there is a single wavelength that can create that effect, but we also see the exact same thing with a mix of red and green on a screen in the complete absence of that. Purples are mainly L-S combinations that can’t be created without at least two wavelengths, running from violet to red.

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This star has a planet-based diet.

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The power of shits compels you!

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But how much would I weigh if I was made of neutrinos?

Sorry, wrong thread?

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Avoirdupois, or Troy?

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I mean… how repurposed? :wink:

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