What are colors, and how do we mix them to make new ones?
Color's Secret Recipe
What are colors, and how do we mix them to make new ones?
Look around. Red apples, blue sky, green grass — color is everywhere, splashed across the whole world. But here's a secret worth sitting with: color isn't really in the apple at all. It's a thing that happens between light, the apple, and you. Let's chase it down.
It starts with light. Sunlight looks plain white, but it's secretly a whole crowd of colors traveling together — red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, all bundled into one beam. When light passes through raindrops or a glass prism, the crowd spreads out, and we finally see them all lined up. We call that a rainbow.
