I wish people would wake up. Colours like pink and brown aren't on the light spectrum. It's not to say they are invisible or don't exist. As for this whole minus green thing, sure you could call it that. You could also just call it pink.
If we "filled in" those wavelengths we can't see with pink, as you suggested at the end of the video, we'd be able to see those wavelengths, and thus they wouldn't be invisible, but pink. It also makes no sense to call pink "minus green", because if you factor out one colour from white, you will always get another colour. The only part of this that was correct was the part about pink being a combination of red and blue.
@vpdisco Your argument for adding white is excusable only bc the narrator oversimplified the case to consider each color at its equilibrium. If you imagine ROYGBIV as the x-axis on a Cartesian coordinate plane, then going up or down on the y-axis results in a more or less saturated hue of the color (compared) to how it appears at equilibrium. Going up would give you "light" turquoise. It is also where you would expect to find pink in relation to magenta (if magenta actually existed) ...
Pink has a wavelength from around 610 to 700 depending on hue. This video is wrong. Next we will have Giorgio A. Tsoukalos telling us pink is actually just a theory made by ancient aliens.
this is simply BAD science. by conflating our limited perception of light with its actual wavelengths you missed an opportunity to actually explain that "color" only happens in the human mind. there is no "color wheel" of electromagnetic radiation- it's a spectrum with 0 at one end and infinity at the other. if you go beyond gamma rays you don't end up back at radio waves. pink has nothing to do with lightwaves below or above the visible spectrum, it's a construct of the human brain.
Pink light is a mixture of red with white light. If you look at it, you will see that it is real, and if you look at it in a spectrometer you will see that it isn't one frequency. I wouldn't say that the sound of a string doesn't exist because it isn't a pure frequency wave. I'm glad that being controversial and wrong has contributed to your success, but I'm sick of bunk science articles and bunk science videos and you're not helping ;^)
You are so off target .. of the color wheel. ... learn your primary, secondary and so on colors before you try to impart your halfwit explanations. Really?! Pink makes up the unseen waves .. what about lavender/lilac? Moss green? Surely they must have some magnificent powers on your limited wheel in that missing space ... A wheel doesn't even come close to the complexities of color and wave lengths .. imho
@linfinster I agree with you, i don't see how you can explain colors with a wheel specially when you're missing one color in your rainbow, indigo. A rainbow have 7color, not six.
"Pink is just the leftovers of white light when you take out the green" Therefore, there is pink light, unlike what you said at the beginning of the video. Good grief, scientists make me feel smart.
Do you mean to suggest that pink pigment reflects radio waves, microwaves, infra-red waves, ultraviolet waves, X rays, and gamma rays, as well as red, purple, and blue waves? I don't understand how that's supposed to work...
@sk8rdman It's just a deeper section of physics. Beyond visible light is the invisible spectrum, infrared, UV, X, and gamma, so essentially color-wise, we have a gap here. Pink as we can make it is just put over top of the "hidden grandeur" to simplify representations. There isn't a real hypothesis here that the actual pink pigment reflects etc.
@b33p3rz I know about the invisible spectrum and all that. Do you mean to say that my understanding of how light works is wrong? Did my 6th grade teacher lie to me? I'm not offended. I just don't fully understand what's being said here.
@sk8rdman He's not proposing anything about lights reaction with a pink pigment, you haven't been taught wrong or anything, it's just that the color pink is placed over top of invisible spectrum for representation purposes, simply so the wheel doesn't have the chunk taken out of it, and so you don't have to draw in the invisible spectrum, which would take up more space than a simple pink swatch.
@b33p3rz Oh, right. So he's just saying that even tho we may see a pinkish color on the color wheel, it doesn't exist in the electromagnetic spectrum. I thought that was obvious :P
That's ridiculous. That's like saying a chord isn't a sound because its made of two other sounds. I don't know of any rule that says something is only a color if its part of the rainbow.
@shisnoking Please explain. My understanding is that pink is the sensation resulting from the sum of light of one or more different light wavelengths, just as a chord is the sensation resulting from the sum of one or more different sound wavelengths. Which part is wrong?
@shisnoking People always think that if they can make up an analogy for it then they are automatically right when usually the analogies don't actually match up at all.
Pink, like Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet, and so many others, is a word, not a color. The reason light red has its own word unlike light blue, etc., is that the human brain (according to studies, especially the female human brain) is wired to distinguish pink as a unique and meaningful range of colors that, when found in nature, correspond to many more salutary (i.e. edible) items (berries, raw meat, etc.). That is why pink is a word.
@BaronHKFvMunchausen In other words, this is absurd and reductionistic and I really want to know how it flaming found its way onto NPR. Usually their people can catch this level of inanity.
@BaronHKFvMunchausen Okay, but the color itself is still what he says. Also, technically, everything else are just words by that logic, too. So nothing has meaning. Your relationship with your loved ones? Meaningless that logic. Also, what studies?
@InsaneMentalist No, it isnt what he says. He says that all photic frequencies outside of the VISIBLE spectrum are replaced by pink. What? Wikipedia: Syllogism. This guy's a total troll. No indigo pen? No problem! Oh, please tell me where I said that colors are meaningless because they are described by words. Thanks. As for the studies, try a keyword search: female preference/attraction pink. The internet is a great place to find answers to basic questions like that. Try it sometime!
@BaronHKFvMunchausen Okay. Now, I didn't necessarily say you're wrong, because you're probably right. But I just said that your comment about pink being a word is a really broad logic. As for female attraction and me researching, I just figured since you referenced the studies, you could tell me about them.
So I could read them.
Because they sound interesting. Sorry I offended you man, if I had money and I could, I'd go buy you some coffee or something.
this is so stupid, you can't say that we as a society or even science has replaced all the non visible waves of light with pink, what about, white light? you basically contradicted yourself by saying that pink goes between red and violet why can't white? all pigment colors are a combination of yellow, magenta, and cyan pigments, while all lights are green blue and red, all other colors are a combination of these or an absence, black is absence of light but 3 pigments and white is the opposite
the statement of how we "replace all the light outside of the spectrum with pink" is completely false and ridicilous. if it would be so, we should be able to see UV and IR light, and all the others you mention. Pink, just like MOST colors, does not have its own wave lenght but is simply a combination of other colors, thats all that makes it special, just like brown, turqouise, and white for example.
Also, the assumption the narrator knows what he is talking about because he has a youtube page and a snazzy animation with confident voice over is a fallacy called attribution error. But I'm not suggesting he is wrong but I think some things have been left out.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think pink is a tint. When the narrator says minus green he simultaneously means add white. By definition that is a tint. As an artist, pink is a difficult color for me to achieve so I use magenta (which is a more pleasant tone of color anyways.) There is also no turquoise or gold in the light spectrum that doesn't mean they don't exist.
@hexhunter2142 That's right. The author here has confused pink with Magenta - these are two totally different colors! "White minus green" is Magenta. Your inkjet printer uses magenta ink because magenta absorbs the primary color green. (Yellow ink absorbs blue light and cyan absorbs red.)
Pink is maximum red plus about half intensity green and slightly-more-then-half blue. Neither magenta nor pink are on the spectrum, but magenta is on the color wheel.
@vpdisco In terms of light, "white light" is mixing all the colors of the spectrum. It's the opposite in terms of paint, where mixing all the colors would get you black. By saying "minus green" he literally means all the colors mixed in minus the green is pink.
@vpdisco Those colors exist, there just isn't a wavelength of light that corresponds to them. There is Red light, and Red is a color, but there is no Pink light, while Pink is still a color.
Exactly, a "color" is more than just a frequency of light, it is also a pigment that can reflect different combinations of frequencies... I am not an expert, but this video is fucking retarded.
@vpdisco Gold comes from the light between orange and yellow. Turquoise comes from the region of the spectrum between blue and indigo. The spectrum's not defined into 7 distinct categories, but rather blends gradually across. You can't get magenta by moving from violet to red. Infrared lies beyond red and ultraviolet lies beyond violet. Magenta is made up by your brain, probably because it can't reconcile the dual absorption of red and violet light by some objects that we see everyday.
Not infinite. There are a limited number of wavelengths detectable by the human eye out of a limited number of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation. A huge number is not the same thing as INFINITY. Any number multiplied by any number can never result in infinity.
Spectrum is a physical reality, color is a perception. While there may not be a wavelength that we see as pink, there are metamers for pink like all other hues. You don't really think a green leaf on a tree is emitting exactly one wavelength of light, do you?
I think this author got ahead of himself. He meant violent but for some reason said pink instead. Oct 16, 2011 and this has how many likes? I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
To people who don't understand, Crayons are not light, they are the opposite of light. Crayons absorb light, and the light not absorbed is the light you see, which is why it works opposite from the light color wheel. Mix all crayons, you get black, (as you weill eventually absorb all light) Mix all colors of light and you get white. Forget what you learned in kindergarten please, before you make stupid comments.
@goej42 Apparently you don't understand the video, you don't know how monitors work, you don't even know how colors work. Google it, trust me, it helps you a lot.
Light yellow, dark yellow, light blue, dark blue, light red, dark red etc, don't appear on the standard colour spectrum picture. Pink is just light violet. Just play around with the colour editor on Paint and you can make millions of colour that aren't on a standard spectrum picture by mixing varying amounts of Red, Green, and Blue. Chords in music aren't made from one specific note being played, they're made from several individual notes being played at the same time. It's the same with light.
Those who dislike these videos are either too "cool" to learn and think they just wasted the last minute watching one of these videos, or are ignorant to expanding their knowledge...
I love how everyone here is trying to act like a genius... well not me! Woo! LOVE your videos! Especially the "What is fire?" one! Keep em coming! I need to pass my physics class!
"We replace all that hidden grandeur with pink." Uh, only people who draw color wheels do this.
Also, our brain makes up EVERY color. The buzzing photons don't really care how we perceive them. I think a better way to perceive this is with sound. When a non-composite, pure color hits your eye, think of a steady rhythm of "duh duh duh". When a composite, like white or pink hits your eye, the "tempos" are mixed, and it has a rhythm more like, "duh duh-dum duh duh-dum duh duh-dum"
He's talking about color that we see. Which is caused when light rays hit objects, some wave lengths are absorbed by the object and the rest bounce back and those wavelengths reach our eyes making the colors that we see. Ultravoliet and Infared wave lenghts are not visiable to the eye therefore even if they bounce of an object we can't see them with the naked eye. Colors that human make with dyes and paints does not work with the same princples, so if you mix red and blue, no pink.
Wow, this took some time to comprehend, but its amazing to know. Though I still think the color wheel is slightly little misleading. The spectrum should be represented by a straight bar, and not a wheel. If it is represented with a wheel, filling in with pink iis correct obviously - the wheel represents colour as RGB and CM(P)Y (opposite) triangular points. When minutephysics says the wheel should be filled with Radio, Gamma, X-Ray etc that is plain misleading.
Just wanted to point something out: According to hexcodes, both pink & purple are mixes of red & blue at different intensities. When the intensity is in numbers, the light is purple, when in letters, the light is pink.
In your color wheel example, I was a little confused. You said we filled that small gap with wavelengths such as radio waves, gamma waves, and microwaves; I thought that visible light was only a small portion of the spectrum.
@CedricDemon Visible light (to our eyes) IS only a small portion of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum. It resides between the infrared and ultraviolet. The whole spectrum goes approximately from a wavelength of 1 pm (gamma) to 100 000 km (extremely low radio). The visible portion of this is from app. 400 to 700 nm. You do the math.
Light works in RGB... Light works in RGB...RGB turns out CMY,and to popular belief R&G are not compliments,C&R,G&M,Y&B are all true compliments,but we think that R&G or B&Amber are...Which is why many LED stage lights are RGBA...That,and A is only achievable with RGB lights at full intensity so having A on it's own helps
@Sp0recreat0r It's interesting. We perceived light based on RGB, but based on the opponent process theory, there are actually 4 primary colors, meaning, yes, as far as we take in light information, we only have 3 cones, but how those cones actually feed information into the brain gives us 4 primary colors across 2 opposing channels: Red/Green and Blue/ Yellow.
So sure red/cyan are opposites as far as how we see light...as far as our "mental color wheel" is concerned...shits deep
Why does it appear that all of these comments are missing the point?
What he's saying is: Pink (magenta) is not a real wavelength of light, but our brains have a need to fill up the space in our perceptions with something so we see the color magenta. We see magenta when all the colors of light in the spectrum except green reflect back at us. Magenta exists in nature and is natural, it's just not an individual electromagnetic frequency.
@Squandarlo Good point. However, colors that aren't real can occur in nature. Pink isn't a real color, but neither is brown. Brown is found all over nature.
@Squandarlo Yeah, I don't think what you're saying is helping. If this is how you argue, you suck at it.
See, let me help you out here. You're finding my words, horribly twisting them into how you want it, acknowledge that you know what I meant, then say that I denied myself. Any person with common sense can see what you're saying isn't even true.
Say what you want, what you said before is still wrong. Pink, or violet or magenta, is found in nature all the time.
You are all missing the point. He never said that we can't see pink or that pink can't exist. He's saying that in natural light, there are no waves that give off a pink color. You can create pink , or any other known color, by mixing these colors together, but there is no natural pink. Geez.
Your visualization of a "rolled up" EM spectrum would suggest that, in that "empty" space, radio waves fade into gamma rays *without* going through the visible light spectrum, while simultaneously doing just the opposite.
Sorry, just wanted to point out a major fundamental flaw in your reasoning.
@minutephysics Ah so that explains why the night-sky is pink....
I'm sorry but this is just awful. You really shouldn't be teaching this stuff if you don't know the subject. At least correct the video or take it down so some kid doesn't fail his test.
@DownThereForDancing The night sky is black and filled with stars, unless the sky in your area is light-polluted (air polluted by lights from houses, cars, street lights, etc.), and it probably is.
If you travel to a country that isn't light-polluted (Countries like Kenya, India, etc.) at night, you'd see a clear dark-blue sky filled with glowing stars.
@Squandarlo Obviously you must not have encountered sarcasm before so allow me to explain myself - if pink is all of the wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum excluding visible light then the night sky would be pink. It is not pink; it is black. My point is that this video is completely and utterly incorrect.
a pink object is filtering out the green part of the color spectrum thus mixing the blue and red parts of it... it has nothing to do with the upper and lower electromagnetic frequencies(infrared and below, ultraviolet and above)
If your assumption would be correct we couldn't see anything but pink, since we're constantly surrounded by invisible electromagnetic waves... (radio-waves, microwaves, etc.)...
Gais, please don't fight on MinutePhysics videos, I watch these because they're fun, not because I want to see a bunch of nerds debating about something most people don't care about :(
But if we percieve all the other electromagnetic frequencies as pink, wouldn't that mean that if you make a cellphone call on the dark (microwaves) you would see it glowing pink?
@PatoZed the whole wrapping around thing is b.s. refer to ErnestWAdams's comment for a more detailed explanation. all other frequencies of electromagnetic waves are invisible to the human eye because we can only visibly detect waves of a very specific range of wavelengths. White light consists of the three primary colors red, green, and blue. (yes, green not yellow. physics works slightly differently than art class.) Anyway, red has the longest wavelength, green has the middle wavelength, and
@afsdashsgdsssdfgdafg blue has the shortest wavelength. so, there is a range of wavelengths where red and green overlap, forming yellow light. there is also a range of wavelengths where green and blue overlap, forming cyan. however, there are no wavelengths where red and blue overlap because they are on opposite sides of green. so when we see red and blue light, are eyes perceive this as a sort of "synthetic" color that we see as pink. but, this is mainly a function of human visual mechanisms
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The confusion over this video stems from the misleading title that the video has been given. This guy is talking about magenta (not pink), which is on the lighter side of purple. Magenta LOOKS like a dark pink, but it is not even a shade of red. Magenta is light purple while pink is light red.
I have no idea why magenta looks more reddish than bluish when it's supposed to be an even mix of both, though. Maybe, magenta actually does not look more red than blue at all? Meh, srs mind rape... :/
I thought pink is a mix of red and white.
aSHTEBALA 25 minutes ago
Dear, everybody I've seen your moms pink last night and it existed.
- sincerely, pink
samandllamas 6 hours ago
I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I TOLD THEM BUT THEY SAID I WAS A SHITHEAD! I WAS RIGHT
ssgoko88 9 hours ago
I wish people would wake up. Colours like pink and brown aren't on the light spectrum. It's not to say they are invisible or don't exist. As for this whole minus green thing, sure you could call it that. You could also just call it pink.
MattTheobald 12 hours ago
Man, your in the f*ckin' newspapers. Check Diari ARA (ara.cat) and scroll down.
soichirokun 12 hours ago
That... was almost entirely wrong.
If we "filled in" those wavelengths we can't see with pink, as you suggested at the end of the video, we'd be able to see those wavelengths, and thus they wouldn't be invisible, but pink. It also makes no sense to call pink "minus green", because if you factor out one colour from white, you will always get another colour. The only part of this that was correct was the part about pink being a combination of red and blue.
Hoeloe42 18 hours ago
so 'pink' on your colour wheel is invisible light then...
ktreagus 23 hours ago
@vpdisco Your argument for adding white is excusable only bc the narrator oversimplified the case to consider each color at its equilibrium. If you imagine ROYGBIV as the x-axis on a Cartesian coordinate plane, then going up or down on the y-axis results in a more or less saturated hue of the color (compared) to how it appears at equilibrium. Going up would give you "light" turquoise. It is also where you would expect to find pink in relation to magenta (if magenta actually existed) ...
Skywaarp 1 day ago
This is about the dumbest shit I have seen in my time...
drv30 1 day ago
Pink has a wavelength from around 610 to 700 depending on hue. This video is wrong. Next we will have Giorgio A. Tsoukalos telling us pink is actually just a theory made by ancient aliens.
pooooooooooops 1 day ago
Magenta is just a variation of purple, is it not?
CagedWalnut 1 day ago
There is a gel used in the film industry called Minus Green to knock the visible green light down from fluorescent fixtures.
hogwashsentinel 1 day ago
but.
rabasiticamphibian 1 day ago
From now on, Pinkie Pie is Minus Greenie π .
annaird4 2 days ago 21
this is simply BAD science. by conflating our limited perception of light with its actual wavelengths you missed an opportunity to actually explain that "color" only happens in the human mind. there is no "color wheel" of electromagnetic radiation- it's a spectrum with 0 at one end and infinity at the other. if you go beyond gamma rays you don't end up back at radio waves. pink has nothing to do with lightwaves below or above the visible spectrum, it's a construct of the human brain.
maputomitch 2 days ago
@maputomitch ... it's a construct of the human brain that occurs to us when the brains sees objects that absorb both blue and red light.
FIXED.
Skywaarp 1 day ago
Pink light is a mixture of red with white light. If you look at it, you will see that it is real, and if you look at it in a spectrometer you will see that it isn't one frequency. I wouldn't say that the sound of a string doesn't exist because it isn't a pure frequency wave. I'm glad that being controversial and wrong has contributed to your success, but I'm sick of bunk science articles and bunk science videos and you're not helping ;^)
Antipastry 2 days ago
so gay people always like minus green this entire time?
cmbdragon666 3 days ago
so, is infrared red, and is ultraviolet violet, and why is it called black light?
megs123456123 3 days ago in playlist MinutePhysics
You are so off target .. of the color wheel. ... learn your primary, secondary and so on colors before you try to impart your halfwit explanations. Really?! Pink makes up the unseen waves .. what about lavender/lilac? Moss green? Surely they must have some magnificent powers on your limited wheel in that missing space ... A wheel doesn't even come close to the complexities of color and wave lengths .. imho
linfinster 3 days ago
@linfinster I agree with you, i don't see how you can explain colors with a wheel specially when you're missing one color in your rainbow, indigo. A rainbow have 7color, not six.
bisus 3 days ago in playlist Favorite videos
@linfinster
He was just saying it's not in the spectrum, jeez
PoliticalKnowsItAll 2 days ago 2
"Pink is just the leftovers of white light when you take out the green" Therefore, there is pink light, unlike what you said at the beginning of the video. Good grief, scientists make me feel smart.
Kossimer 3 days ago
I just watched an amazing anti-Obama campaign ad before this video played.
Archosaurus 3 days ago
no wonder the pink sheep in mine craft is so hard to find XD
BlueandBlack101 3 days ago
No PINk NOOO WHERE DID YOU GO PiNK!!?!!!!!!!
stesan2006 3 days ago
Do you mean to suggest that pink pigment reflects radio waves, microwaves, infra-red waves, ultraviolet waves, X rays, and gamma rays, as well as red, purple, and blue waves? I don't understand how that's supposed to work...
sk8rdman 4 days ago
@sk8rdman It's just a deeper section of physics. Beyond visible light is the invisible spectrum, infrared, UV, X, and gamma, so essentially color-wise, we have a gap here. Pink as we can make it is just put over top of the "hidden grandeur" to simplify representations. There isn't a real hypothesis here that the actual pink pigment reflects etc.
b33p3rz 3 days ago
@b33p3rz I know about the invisible spectrum and all that. Do you mean to say that my understanding of how light works is wrong? Did my 6th grade teacher lie to me? I'm not offended. I just don't fully understand what's being said here.
sk8rdman 3 days ago
@sk8rdman He's not proposing anything about lights reaction with a pink pigment, you haven't been taught wrong or anything, it's just that the color pink is placed over top of invisible spectrum for representation purposes, simply so the wheel doesn't have the chunk taken out of it, and so you don't have to draw in the invisible spectrum, which would take up more space than a simple pink swatch.
b33p3rz 2 days ago
@b33p3rz Oh, right. So he's just saying that even tho we may see a pinkish color on the color wheel, it doesn't exist in the electromagnetic spectrum. I thought that was obvious :P
sk8rdman 2 days ago
this guy sounds like jesse eisenberg from the social network
mysticryan1 4 days ago
there are other colors that dont exist...
iamgig9876 4 days ago in playlist MinutePhysics
That's ridiculous. That's like saying a chord isn't a sound because its made of two other sounds. I don't know of any rule that says something is only a color if its part of the rainbow.
RibsMaster 4 days ago
@RibsMaster Insanely wrong. But keep trying to draw fallacious analogies ;) Stay Free Friend!!
shisnoking 4 days ago
@shisnoking Please explain. My understanding is that pink is the sensation resulting from the sum of light of one or more different light wavelengths, just as a chord is the sensation resulting from the sum of one or more different sound wavelengths. Which part is wrong?
RibsMaster 4 days ago
@shisnoking People always think that if they can make up an analogy for it then they are automatically right when usually the analogies don't actually match up at all.
GirRocks8 3 days ago
Pink, like Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet, and so many others, is a word, not a color. The reason light red has its own word unlike light blue, etc., is that the human brain (according to studies, especially the female human brain) is wired to distinguish pink as a unique and meaningful range of colors that, when found in nature, correspond to many more salutary (i.e. edible) items (berries, raw meat, etc.). That is why pink is a word.
BaronHKFvMunchausen 5 days ago
@BaronHKFvMunchausen In other words, this is absurd and reductionistic and I really want to know how it flaming found its way onto NPR. Usually their people can catch this level of inanity.
BaronHKFvMunchausen 5 days ago
@BaronHKFvMunchausen Okay, but the color itself is still what he says. Also, technically, everything else are just words by that logic, too. So nothing has meaning. Your relationship with your loved ones? Meaningless that logic. Also, what studies?
InsaneMentalist 4 days ago
@InsaneMentalist No, it isnt what he says. He says that all photic frequencies outside of the VISIBLE spectrum are replaced by pink. What? Wikipedia: Syllogism. This guy's a total troll. No indigo pen? No problem! Oh, please tell me where I said that colors are meaningless because they are described by words. Thanks. As for the studies, try a keyword search: female preference/attraction pink. The internet is a great place to find answers to basic questions like that. Try it sometime!
BaronHKFvMunchausen 4 days ago
@BaronHKFvMunchausen Okay. Now, I didn't necessarily say you're wrong, because you're probably right. But I just said that your comment about pink being a word is a really broad logic. As for female attraction and me researching, I just figured since you referenced the studies, you could tell me about them.
So I could read them.
Because they sound interesting. Sorry I offended you man, if I had money and I could, I'd go buy you some coffee or something.
InsaneMentalist 4 days ago
Dude he is talking about the standard artist color wheel. And your primary colors are backwards.
MrPhoenixpro 5 days ago
this is so stupid, you can't say that we as a society or even science has replaced all the non visible waves of light with pink, what about, white light? you basically contradicted yourself by saying that pink goes between red and violet why can't white? all pigment colors are a combination of yellow, magenta, and cyan pigments, while all lights are green blue and red, all other colors are a combination of these or an absence, black is absence of light but 3 pigments and white is the opposite
Tater2650 5 days ago
the statement of how we "replace all the light outside of the spectrum with pink" is completely false and ridicilous. if it would be so, we should be able to see UV and IR light, and all the others you mention. Pink, just like MOST colors, does not have its own wave lenght but is simply a combination of other colors, thats all that makes it special, just like brown, turqouise, and white for example.
postisper123 5 days ago 2
I want a green machine!
xero907 5 days ago
some how a girl showing offf her boobs ended up in the related vids >.>
treelikepacman 5 days ago
My childhood.
xyiera 5 days ago
This video is pretty misleading, especially the part about "pink is our substitute for the rest of the EM spectrum.
RibsMaster 6 days ago 2
Note to self: call pink negative green.
MachineKing32 6 days ago
subtract green or add white... so its lightish red. rvb ftw
CRollur 6 days ago
Also, the assumption the narrator knows what he is talking about because he has a youtube page and a snazzy animation with confident voice over is a fallacy called attribution error. But I'm not suggesting he is wrong but I think some things have been left out.
vpdisco 6 days ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think pink is a tint. When the narrator says minus green he simultaneously means add white. By definition that is a tint. As an artist, pink is a difficult color for me to achieve so I use magenta (which is a more pleasant tone of color anyways.) There is also no turquoise or gold in the light spectrum that doesn't mean they don't exist.
vpdisco 6 days ago 16
@vpdisco Magenta is probably what he meant.
hexhunter2142 2 days ago
@hexhunter2142 That's right. The author here has confused pink with Magenta - these are two totally different colors! "White minus green" is Magenta. Your inkjet printer uses magenta ink because magenta absorbs the primary color green. (Yellow ink absorbs blue light and cyan absorbs red.)
Pink is maximum red plus about half intensity green and slightly-more-then-half blue. Neither magenta nor pink are on the spectrum, but magenta is on the color wheel.
ProfSai 1 day ago
@vpdisco In terms of light, "white light" is mixing all the colors of the spectrum. It's the opposite in terms of paint, where mixing all the colors would get you black. By saying "minus green" he literally means all the colors mixed in minus the green is pink.
MrHinderance 1 day ago 3
@vpdisco Those colors exist, there just isn't a wavelength of light that corresponds to them. There is Red light, and Red is a color, but there is no Pink light, while Pink is still a color.
Hematite1000 1 day ago in playlist Brain Candy
@Hematite1000
Exactly, a "color" is more than just a frequency of light, it is also a pigment that can reflect different combinations of frequencies... I am not an expert, but this video is fucking retarded.
drv30 1 day ago
@vpdisco Gold comes from the light between orange and yellow. Turquoise comes from the region of the spectrum between blue and indigo. The spectrum's not defined into 7 distinct categories, but rather blends gradually across. You can't get magenta by moving from violet to red. Infrared lies beyond red and ultraviolet lies beyond violet. Magenta is made up by your brain, probably because it can't reconcile the dual absorption of red and violet light by some objects that we see everyday.
Skywaarp 1 day ago
... Pink is NOT a mix of red and blue. The premise is false. Pink is pale red, ie, red and white. What kind of idiot came up with this video?
Sctn2labor 6 days ago
pinkie pie begs to differ. screw physics!
twphilosopher 6 days ago
I'm more confused now than I was before I saw this video.
Technodreamer 6 days ago
did you happen to narrate the movie Zombieland?
sensoryseduction 6 days ago
Pink is not magenta. Pink is pink. Magenta is magenta. Color variations are infinite, and can be very subtle.
shaell77 6 days ago 3
@shaell77
Not infinite. There are a limited number of wavelengths detectable by the human eye out of a limited number of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation. A huge number is not the same thing as INFINITY. Any number multiplied by any number can never result in infinity.
countrybluegrass 6 days ago
@countrybluegrass You're right, no doubt. But infinity can still exist in closed systems.
shaell77 6 days ago
Spectrum is a physical reality, color is a perception. While there may not be a wavelength that we see as pink, there are metamers for pink like all other hues. You don't really think a green leaf on a tree is emitting exactly one wavelength of light, do you?
dlev007 6 days ago
The double rainbow has pink. All the way!
SoundGarageTales 6 days ago 2
I think this author got ahead of himself. He meant violent but for some reason said pink instead. Oct 16, 2011 and this has how many likes? I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
NemesisAnother 6 days ago
So light can be both a particle and a wave? Is that even possible????
iamwhitelivewithit 1 week ago
@iamwhitelivewithit ,yes, light has mass (experimentally proven that its trajectory is bent by gravity when passing near a large object like a star).
jorgecalivalle 1 week ago
In film it IS called Minus Green
Devgal89 1 week ago
To people who don't understand, Crayons are not light, they are the opposite of light. Crayons absorb light, and the light not absorbed is the light you see, which is why it works opposite from the light color wheel. Mix all crayons, you get black, (as you weill eventually absorb all light) Mix all colors of light and you get white. Forget what you learned in kindergarten please, before you make stupid comments.
rich1051414 1 week ago
@goej42
Hey buddy, the light coming off your screen is made of red blue and green pixels that's what all colors in a monitor is made of ;P
redshift941 1 week ago
I might be being stupid but are there any other colors that act like this?
msnider14 1 week ago
minus green floyd
blooboy4747 1 week ago 73
@blooboy4747 First intelligent comment on here.
Hypurr1 1 week ago
this vid just absolutely blew my mind.
pamparmi 1 week ago
So pink light doesn't exist. The pink that is coming off my monitor is obviously not pink light. (SARCASM)
goej42 1 week ago
@goej42 Im sorry. Did you even watch the video?
JordanMinecraft 1 week ago
@goej42 0:18
fatfartish1 1 week ago
@goej42 Apparently you don't understand the video, you don't know how monitors work, you don't even know how colors work. Google it, trust me, it helps you a lot.
Racoonieboy 1 week ago
For what it's worth, GAM Products (a maker of lighting gels for the theatre), calls their pink gel "minus green"
mvm92 1 week ago
We fill the rest of it with pink
GnarlyNewEngland 1 week ago
Light yellow, dark yellow, light blue, dark blue, light red, dark red etc, don't appear on the standard colour spectrum picture. Pink is just light violet. Just play around with the colour editor on Paint and you can make millions of colour that aren't on a standard spectrum picture by mixing varying amounts of Red, Green, and Blue. Chords in music aren't made from one specific note being played, they're made from several individual notes being played at the same time. It's the same with light.
Garethpookykins 1 week ago
I just learned a somewhat difficult/elusive concept through a comprehensive media outlet. Fuck.
ppo49 1 week ago
Those who dislike these videos are either too "cool" to learn and think they just wasted the last minute watching one of these videos, or are ignorant to expanding their knowledge...
Kierstentr 1 week ago
There is no pink light: proof that the invisible pink unicorn is invisible, and therefore it exists. XD
foxpassed 1 week ago 143
@foxpassed But you still have to prove it's there!(i do know you're joking btw)
sagenunn 1 week ago in playlist MinutePhysics
@foxpassed <3
gphhawkins 1 week ago
@foxpassed This may scare you, but I've actually come across more fallacious syllogisms in the creationist "spectrum".
QuantumGh0st 1 week ago
wtf
Nered88 1 week ago
i love you
you prove my point that pink isn't a color
Disneywomen101 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
I love how everyone here is trying to act like a genius... well not me! Woo! LOVE your videos! Especially the "What is fire?" one! Keep em coming! I need to pass my physics class!
IziKizi 1 week ago
And brown? Where does that fit into the light spectrum?
lThatguy8922l 1 week ago
@lThatguy8922l Brown isn't in the the primary color theory. You don't see brown in a rainbow.
vickyboy96 1 week ago
@vickyboy96 Of course not. What I mean is: how do we see it if it isn't in the spectrum? What exactly is it a mixture of?
lThatguy8922l 1 week ago
The government lied to me!
hallavast 1 week ago
@hallavast This is why communists wear pink!
hallavast 1 week ago
I thought pink was red + white ? oh wait... that's in art...
DoNotLaughAtMe 1 week ago
"We replace all that hidden grandeur with pink." Uh, only people who draw color wheels do this.
Also, our brain makes up EVERY color. The buzzing photons don't really care how we perceive them. I think a better way to perceive this is with sound. When a non-composite, pure color hits your eye, think of a steady rhythm of "duh duh duh". When a composite, like white or pink hits your eye, the "tempos" are mixed, and it has a rhythm more like, "duh duh-dum duh duh-dum duh duh-dum"
TheFooColin 1 week ago
He's talking about color that we see. Which is caused when light rays hit objects, some wave lengths are absorbed by the object and the rest bounce back and those wavelengths reach our eyes making the colors that we see. Ultravoliet and Infared wave lenghts are not visiable to the eye therefore even if they bounce of an object we can't see them with the naked eye. Colors that human make with dyes and paints does not work with the same princples, so if you mix red and blue, no pink.
Renea1991 2 weeks ago
Wow, this took some time to comprehend, but its amazing to know. Though I still think the color wheel is slightly little misleading. The spectrum should be represented by a straight bar, and not a wheel. If it is represented with a wheel, filling in with pink iis correct obviously - the wheel represents colour as RGB and CM(P)Y (opposite) triangular points. When minutephysics says the wheel should be filled with Radio, Gamma, X-Ray etc that is plain misleading.
imanyday 2 weeks ago
Just wanted to point something out: According to hexcodes, both pink & purple are mixes of red & blue at different intensities. When the intensity is in numbers, the light is purple, when in letters, the light is pink.
TheShadowWolfie 2 weeks ago
Just imagine what those colors would look like if we could see them
ImAimingRightAtY0U 2 weeks ago
In your color wheel example, I was a little confused. You said we filled that small gap with wavelengths such as radio waves, gamma waves, and microwaves; I thought that visible light was only a small portion of the spectrum.
CedricDemon 2 weeks ago
@CedricDemon Visible light (to our eyes) IS only a small portion of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum. It resides between the infrared and ultraviolet. The whole spectrum goes approximately from a wavelength of 1 pm (gamma) to 100 000 km (extremely low radio). The visible portion of this is from app. 400 to 700 nm. You do the math.
JayMark2049 2 weeks ago
Light works in RGB... Light works in RGB...RGB turns out CMY,and to popular belief R&G are not compliments,C&R,G&M,Y&B are all true compliments,but we think that R&G or B&Amber are...Which is why many LED stage lights are RGBA...That,and A is only achievable with RGB lights at full intensity so having A on it's own helps
Sp0recreat0r 2 weeks ago
@Sp0recreat0r It's interesting. We perceived light based on RGB, but based on the opponent process theory, there are actually 4 primary colors, meaning, yes, as far as we take in light information, we only have 3 cones, but how those cones actually feed information into the brain gives us 4 primary colors across 2 opposing channels: Red/Green and Blue/ Yellow.
So sure red/cyan are opposites as far as how we see light...as far as our "mental color wheel" is concerned...shits deep
HIghFlyinByrd 2 weeks ago
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Atrixeagle1 2 weeks ago
Birds can see even more colours.
TaiFerret 2 weeks ago
@TaiFerret Some birds and lizards can see infrared and ultraviolet light. My bathtub is blind though.
JayMark2049 2 weeks ago
...god damnit. What the hell are you talking about with pink and radio and gamma rays?
aluisious 2 weeks ago
56 fuckin' idiots who don't know the difference between Light color composites and object color composites, I DON'T WANNA LIVE ON THIS PLANET ANYMORE
ADD TO THEM 26 OTHER IDIOTS IN THE SECOND COMMENT
whattaaaaaa 2 weeks ago 34
@whattaaaaaa now that ur the second top comment... well... I guess ur an idiot. u said it urself LAWL
AdolfHitlerGaming 2 weeks ago
@whattaaaaaa
Whiny bitch.
frazzzer8888 1 week ago
@whattaaaaaa i tried telling my friends his but they kept saying "you cant take out green from white" idiots...
multidwee 1 week ago in playlist MinutePhysics
@whattaaaaaa Hurray for self-reference!
cxgamer 1 week ago
@whattaaaaaa i know right? geez ppl take a basic art class. =.=; pink = red + white. it's not hard
NemesisAnother 6 days ago
Total baloney. If radio waves were pink, they wouldn't be invisible. We know radio waves are invisible because we cannot see them.
FlowersInHisHair 2 weeks ago
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ManOfBamboo 2 weeks ago
yellow+ blue= blellow
frankieskaterdude 2 weeks ago 2
Why does it appear that all of these comments are missing the point?
What he's saying is: Pink (magenta) is not a real wavelength of light, but our brains have a need to fill up the space in our perceptions with something so we see the color magenta. We see magenta when all the colors of light in the spectrum except green reflect back at us. Magenta exists in nature and is natural, it's just not an individual electromagnetic frequency.
Tilo0Tantori 2 weeks ago
A simle way of testing this theory: Go out in the forest, and try to find something pink.
You will fail, because pink is not a natural color.
Squandarlo 2 weeks ago
@Squandarlo
Flowers can be pink
inverseactuality 2 weeks ago
@inverseactuality I've never seen a naturally pink flower in my entire life.
Squandarlo 2 weeks ago
@Squandarlo Good point. However, colors that aren't real can occur in nature. Pink isn't a real color, but neither is brown. Brown is found all over nature.
inverseactuality 2 weeks ago
@inverseactuality Brown surely is a natural and a real color.
Squandarlo 2 weeks ago
@Squandarlo
From what I've read, brown is in the same predicament as pink is as far as frequencies and such go. Flamingos are naturally pink, aren't they?
inverseactuality 2 weeks ago
@inverseactuality No, they're minus green.
Bronw is in the color circle, pink is not.
Squandarlo 2 weeks ago
@Squandarlo
pink = minus green
Couldn't you argue that minus green also does not exist? Minus green is more or less explaining what pink is. White minus green.
inverseactuality 2 weeks ago
@Squandarlo flamingo
fairyheli2 2 weeks ago
@fairyheli2 red + blue.
There's no pink involved.
Squandarlo 2 weeks ago
@Squandarlo Flamingos! No really, that's wrong and that's not what this video is saying at all.
Racoonieboy 1 week ago
@Racoonieboy You just denied yourself, idiot.
Squandarlo 1 week ago
@Squandarlo You didn't understand what I said, idiot.
If you need a hint, I'll break down my comment so that an idiot like you can understand.
The first sentence was a joke. Then, I said that you're wrong and that you didn't understand the video.
Idiot.
Racoonieboy 1 week ago
@Racoonieboy Yes I did, and I know that you didn't mean what I said, but you were denying yourself GRAMMATICALLY.
Squandarlo 6 days ago
@Squandarlo Yeah, I don't think what you're saying is helping. If this is how you argue, you suck at it.
See, let me help you out here. You're finding my words, horribly twisting them into how you want it, acknowledge that you know what I meant, then say that I denied myself. Any person with common sense can see what you're saying isn't even true.
Say what you want, what you said before is still wrong. Pink, or violet or magenta, is found in nature all the time.
Racoonieboy 6 days ago
@Racoonieboy Yes, but there is no pink LIGHT. The color pink exists, but the pink light does not.
Pink light is made from red + blue.
See, there's no reason to argue like a fucking physics nerd.
Squandarlo 6 days ago
You are all missing the point. He never said that we can't see pink or that pink can't exist. He's saying that in natural light, there are no waves that give off a pink color. You can create pink , or any other known color, by mixing these colors together, but there is no natural pink. Geez.
oneeyedgeek 2 weeks ago
Your visualization of a "rolled up" EM spectrum would suggest that, in that "empty" space, radio waves fade into gamma rays *without* going through the visible light spectrum, while simultaneously doing just the opposite.
Sorry, just wanted to point out a major fundamental flaw in your reasoning.
TheVerandaguy 2 weeks ago
@minutephysics Ah so that explains why the night-sky is pink....
I'm sorry but this is just awful. You really shouldn't be teaching this stuff if you don't know the subject. At least correct the video or take it down so some kid doesn't fail his test.
DownThereForDancing 2 weeks ago
@DownThereForDancing The night sky is black and filled with stars, unless the sky in your area is light-polluted (air polluted by lights from houses, cars, street lights, etc.), and it probably is.
If you travel to a country that isn't light-polluted (Countries like Kenya, India, etc.) at night, you'd see a clear dark-blue sky filled with glowing stars.
Squandarlo 2 weeks ago
@Squandarlo Obviously you must not have encountered sarcasm before so allow me to explain myself - if pink is all of the wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum excluding visible light then the night sky would be pink. It is not pink; it is black. My point is that this video is completely and utterly incorrect.
DownThereForDancing 2 weeks ago
@DownThereForDancing This video might me a bit too short, so it's kinda hard to understand.
Poop weiner mayonnaise with dog hair.
Squandarlo 2 weeks ago
guys, stop hating. he probably knows more about this stuff than we do.
2damaxTV 2 weeks ago
I had to stop the video and facepalm when he said "we replace every wavelwngth we can't see with pink". Honestly is this troll physics or what.
AbsurdityOfReality 3 weeks ago
So... Does that mean X-rays, microwaves, gamma waves, ect. are all pink? That's funny, I've never been able to see them.
TheAshenKing 3 weeks ago in playlist MinutePhysics
The REAL reason you see pink is this: When you get two wavelengths entering your retina, the frequencies average out. e.g. Red + Green = Yellow
But, when you get Red+Blue/Violet, your brain has to either
a) average the two to get green or;
b) invent a new colour to fill the gap. <--- HINT: correct answer.
And so that is the origin of pink.
BiggieAls4 3 weeks ago
@BiggieAls4 I thought that red + blue = magenta? :S
ManOfBamboo 2 weeks ago
Two in the minus green, and one in the stink, just doesn't have the same effect.
gigawatts2k 3 weeks ago
i want to stick it in your minus green
choongification 3 weeks ago
i broke the subscribe button
kiwininja100 3 weeks ago
a pink object is filtering out the green part of the color spectrum thus mixing the blue and red parts of it... it has nothing to do with the upper and lower electromagnetic frequencies(infrared and below, ultraviolet and above)
If your assumption would be correct we couldn't see anything but pink, since we're constantly surrounded by invisible electromagnetic waves... (radio-waves, microwaves, etc.)...
Foaster 3 weeks ago
Gais, please don't fight on MinutePhysics videos, I watch these because they're fun, not because I want to see a bunch of nerds debating about something most people don't care about :(
Whoaman555 3 weeks ago
But if we percieve all the other electromagnetic frequencies as pink, wouldn't that mean that if you make a cellphone call on the dark (microwaves) you would see it glowing pink?
PatoZed 3 weeks ago in playlist MinutePhysics
@PatoZed the whole wrapping around thing is b.s. refer to ErnestWAdams's comment for a more detailed explanation. all other frequencies of electromagnetic waves are invisible to the human eye because we can only visibly detect waves of a very specific range of wavelengths. White light consists of the three primary colors red, green, and blue. (yes, green not yellow. physics works slightly differently than art class.) Anyway, red has the longest wavelength, green has the middle wavelength, and
afsdashsgdsssdfgdafg 3 weeks ago
@afsdashsgdsssdfgdafg blue has the shortest wavelength. so, there is a range of wavelengths where red and green overlap, forming yellow light. there is also a range of wavelengths where green and blue overlap, forming cyan. however, there are no wavelengths where red and blue overlap because they are on opposite sides of green. so when we see red and blue light, are eyes perceive this as a sort of "synthetic" color that we see as pink. but, this is mainly a function of human visual mechanisms
afsdashsgdsssdfgdafg 3 weeks ago
thus that mean now it is called minus-green floyd
memathandscience 3 weeks ago
what about brown :{
billyblue888 3 weeks ago
grey broght me here :D
dvynys06 3 weeks ago 23
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MrFunnyPhysics 3 weeks ago in playlist MinutePhysics
i'm glad pink doesn't exist because i am colour blind and i can't see it anyway!
xsamiasx 3 weeks ago in playlist MinutePhysics
@xsamiasx Wow, what a sad attempt of a joke. And I mean sad. It made me depressed even to read that.
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The confusion over this video stems from the misleading title that the video has been given. This guy is talking about magenta (not pink), which is on the lighter side of purple. Magenta LOOKS like a dark pink, but it is not even a shade of red. Magenta is light purple while pink is light red.
I have no idea why magenta looks more reddish than bluish when it's supposed to be an even mix of both, though. Maybe, magenta actually does not look more red than blue at all? Meh, srs mind rape... :/
ManOfBamboo 3 weeks ago 7
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ManOfBamboo 3 weeks ago
If one looks at the difintion of colour, Pink could still be called a colour.
scientiaesugaku 3 weeks ago
This video is wrong it is a 'colour'. We had a seminar on optics today and the speaker was asked this question about pink.
mufc4everch 3 weeks ago