Hey, Vsauce. Michael here.
And today we are going to talk about color. (Green Green, Green Green).
"Gold" on, let me just "Pink" this up. "Yellow?" "Michael, "Orange" you going to come to the
concert this evening?" "I "Red" about that, there are going to be
a lot of "Purple" there." "I didn't "Teal" you about this earlier?" "Well, look, I have to go "Brown" town first,
but I'll be "White Black." Colors... Did you know that the human eye can differentiate
10 million different colors? But what color is a mirror? You might say "silver," because mirrors are
often illustrated that way, and, to be sure, they are made out of silver or silvery things
like aluminium. But a mirror, in reality, is whatever color you point it at. In this Green Room, the mirror is green. And
if you look inside a mirror, it becomes "you-colored." An object is whatever color it doesn't absorb.
These sticky notes are orange because when hit with typical white light, they absorb
every other wavelength of visible light, except for orange, which they diffuse into your eye balls. But a perfect mirror reflects all colors equally.
So, in a way, you could say that a mirror is white, except a mirror doesn't reflect
colors in the same way that pigment does. A mirror reflects incoming light in a single
outgoing direction - specular reflection, not diffuse. This kind of reflection creates an
image of the very thing in front of the mirror. So, as Bad Astronomy jokes,
a mirror is more of a "smart white." But wait a second, that is a "perfect" mirror
and we live in the real world where there are no perfect mirrors. Every mirror absorbs
a little bit of light, not enough that it matters, I mean, it looks pretty clear to
me, but when you take a look at the spectrum of light reflected by a typical mirror, you
will find that it best reflects light within the 510 nanometer range, which we perceive
as green light. So, technically, a mirror is a tiny, tiny, tiny bit green. You may have noticed this yourself
when investigating a "Mirror Tunnel." This happens when two mirrors face each other,
reflecting the same scene back and forth, and back and forth, and back and forth. With
each new reflection, a little bit more visual light is lost, but green least of all. That's
why the reflection way down the tunnel is dimmer and greener. So maybe real world mirrors aren't "smart
white," they're actually kind of green, but we should talk about white. "En español, "white" es "blanco." "En français, "white" est dit "blanc." And in English we have a word that comes
from the same route. Black, which is the opposite of white. How did that happen? Well, it turns out that all of those words
come from the same ancient Proto-Indo-European root word "Bhleg," which meant "shine," "burn,"
"flash." Some languages took it to mean the brightness of the flash: "white." While others
took it to mean what's left behind: the burned, "black," darkness. If you have blue eyes, your eyes aren't actually
blue, in the sense that the molecules inside them are absorbing all other wavelengths of
visible light and diffusing the blue. No, no, no, instead, your eyes are blue for the
same reason that the sky is blue: interference. In our sky, light from the Sun encounters
molecules of air and because of the size of those molecules, light of longer wavelengths
can slip on by, but shorter wavelengths crash into the particles, like blue light, and scatter,
which is why we see blue when we look at the sky away from the Sun. Without the air molecules, that space would
just be black. And when direct sunlight has to travel through a lot of air, almost all
of the colors get scattered out except for the longest wavelengths, the red, which is
what gives a sunrise and a sunset their color. The iris of your eyeball contains a hazy layer
where light can be scattered just like the sky. Through a similar, but slightly different
process, shorter wavelengths are scattered more, making your eyes look blue, unless,
of course, you have some melonen in that iris, in which case your eyes are going to be
green, hazel or brown. Enjoy those colors. And as always, thanks for watching.
I would like to point out that it is the glass that gives it the green tint. If we had perfectly clear glass, you would have a perfectly clear mirror.
I Can't fucking believe it. I Can't fucking believe it. I Can't fucking believe it. I had only one horrible teacher in my childhood, she never accepted opinion.
We talked about this subject, the subject of the mirror colour. She said that it had no colour, I told her I saw it green. She told me that's impossible since it had no colour. I kept inquiring and she kept saying I was wrong.
I ended up asking her "is it impossible that I see it green, am I lying?" and she said (sort of shouted) yes. I was an impressionable child and I got impressed.
So I shut the fuck up and the class continues. To this fucking day 18 years later I still believed that mirrors couldn't be green until now. Of course I don't think about that so often, but it pops up every now and then.
Thank you for posting this. That bitch. I won.
The green comes from the glass. Most glass is soda-lime glass which has a green tint because of iron impurities. If you look at a piece of glass on edge, you can usually see the green color. Other types of glass don't have a green tint so mirrors made from them won't actually be green.
"You-Colored" That was very politically correct of them.
Fuck school. I've got Vsauce
tldw: green
I was accidentally educated ):
"Black" stems from "Blanco" and "Blanc?" I've always assumed "Blank" shared origins with blanco and blanc, and 'blank' seems to imply white.
The guy sounds like David Cross.