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Music is a pattern of wiggling air. Color is just a frequency of wiggling because all light is wiggling, but not a pattern of frequencies. I think it would be more congruent is the statement were “movies are just the wiggling of the electromagnetic field”.

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Disclaimer: I am not technically a physicist.

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color isnt even that, cos magenta isnt a frequency. color is a useful lie your brain tells itself about the materials it can see.

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brain gets information it can’t process

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Me: “Why do I smell marshmallows when I look at that thing that isn’t a marshmallow?”

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Not all colors are just a single frequency. Like, magenta can only exist as a sum of red and blue light. So colors are also patterns of wiggling

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I can’t tell you how pleasing it is to see this take instead of the usual “magenta isn’t real” bit

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No color is ‘real’. Only frequencies are real. But colors are real in our minds, just as sound is.

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Seriously. I’m tired of those goons parroting the usual magenda.

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If magenta isn’t real, then white isn’t real either lmao

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