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Asked by baggins to Alexandra, Dean, Jess, Luisa, Sian on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: General.
Question: describe the colour red
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Alexandra Kamins answered on 17 Jun 2010:
The colour of summer fruit, of Romeo’s love, of the heat of a blazing fire, of immediate anger.
Scientifically, red is light with the wavelength of about 650 nm. Boring, I know, but that’s the best we can do! Who knows if we all see “red” the same?! We just all know that tomatoes, stop signs and blood are similar colours, and we call that red.
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Dean Whittaker answered on 17 Jun 2010:
it’s 650 nm wavelength of photons. It’s the colour of the shirts for Swindon Town Football club and a colour that psycologically can aggravate people (and notibly bulls)
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Sian Foch-Gatrell answered on 18 Jun 2010:
Wow, hard question! I guess the colour red is often associated with heat so if you get a person to imagine something really hot the colour red could be associated with this. However, emotions and colours are subjective so I would imagine that this would not work all the time.
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Jessica Housden answered on 18 Jun 2010:
Lol – well, scientific decription, 700nm, but we only see it bacuse the object coloured red doesn’t absorb the red wavelengths; they just bounce off! A primary colour (so you can’t make it from any other colour!
From my point of view – the colour of poppies, holly berries, and daring lipstick!
Comments
Luisa commented on :
Sorry to be picky but it’s not the colour red that makes bulls aggressive, it’s the movement of the capote.
Marianne commented on :
Technically red is the absence of other wavelengths; an object that appears red to us absorbs light that’s yellow, green, blue etc. and reflects the red – so that’s what we see!
jasonlahdd commented on :
Its Aberdeen Football clubs colour
aimeeculley commented on :
also man uniteds colour
rachael123 commented on :
Bulls are colour blind so they can’t see Red