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Fake Discussion : Red is the most superior color of the spectrum!
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: LTK on 03 Jan 2014, 15:52 ---objects that are hot enough to glow have never existed together with humans in our evolutionary history?
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In the days before humanity evolved central heating, there was this thing called a "fire" which contained glowing objects - and they were never blue.
GarandMarine:
Well. You can make fire that hot....
I also hear tell there's this thing called magma which stays in the red/yellow half of the spectrum. Red is also associated with blood, which is usually a fairly warm (literally) substance....
LTK:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 04 Jan 2014, 02:04 ---
--- Quote from: LTK on 03 Jan 2014, 15:52 ---objects that are hot enough to glow have never existed together with humans in our evolutionary history?
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In the days before humanity evolved central heating, there was this thing called a "fire" which contained glowing objects - and they were never blue.
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I daresay that humans' ability to see colours will have evolved hundreds of thousands of years before fire was discovered. You could argue that the association between colour and temperature was only developed afterwards, but that raises the question of why we have evolved colour vision in the first place.
Metope:
Well, the sun is always yellow or orange, and fire did exist before humans learned to control it. Fire isn't exactly a human invention... Plus, the night is always dark and cold, and the colours you can see when it's dark are mostly blue and grey-ish. Plus, ice is often light blue due to the microorganisms that can live there.
However, we don't know when the associations were developed or if they changed, but I'd argue the associations various colours had before the stone age has little impact on how we perceive things today, that their colour associations were the same as ours or not doesn't really matter.
LookingIn:
If I remember anything from stellar science is that blue stars are the smallest and hottest stars, while red stars are the coldest and largest stars. Therefore, sometimes red does not equal hot the way we think it does :-D :psyduck:
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