What Color Is A Mirror?

LEARN MORE and, in order of appearence:

Watch Molly dance! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jljYA...

Javier: http://www.youtube.com/user/werevertu...

Loka: http://www.youtube.com/user/LeMondede...

Great web exhibit on the causes of color: http://www.webexhibits.org/causesofco...

"color" vs "colour": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American...

Study on mirror color: http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?...

Bad Astronomy on Mirror-color: http://www.badastronomy.com/mad/1996/...

Great series of mirror tunnels: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikedefi...

Origins of color terms: http://www.worldwidewords.org/article...

Origin of "black": http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?t...

xkcd's color survey: http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color...

Tyndall Effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndall_...

More on scattering: http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~zawis...

A CRAZY bird that uses interference on its feathers to look awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS1tEn...

Peacocks also use interference: http://www.webexhibits.org/causesofco...

Fantastic Radio Lab about color terms: http://www.radiolab.org/2012/may/21/s...

Straight Dope on the history of color terms: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/r...

Mirror GIF: http://gifninja.com/animatedgifs/1046...

my favorite color illusion: http://www.archimedes-lab.org/color_i...

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[SaxonCamel]

because one isn't intrinsic to the other? lol

[Egils Aleksejevs]

so if mirrors had a different colour on the back of them, they would reflect in different colours?

[Lissa Lou]

I'd like to just keep believing that I have blue eyes because I was picked to be the superior organism of my family and given an extraordinary quest that will forever be remembered throughout history.

[lbawsl]

duded your fucking awesome at explaning things and making learning fun!! love your videos

[Hadouken GaD]

Im pretty sure he's English, not American

[terran236]

the idea of correctness is arbitrary.

[Dylan Dixon]

0:44 i hate how americans do not pronounce aluminium correctly

[Cloudsdale91]

No, the sticky notes are yellow.

[Niko Soenarto]

so now i know why the sky is blue

[theshredder2099]

So as the sun hits air it looks blue, but isn't that similar to blood?

[ChimpFancy]

heh FREEEEEEEENCH