Does the Color Pink Exist? Scientists Aren’t Sure

*BlackFox · **Joined:** Sep 2008 **Posts:** 7923 **Location:**

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In a blog post, Robert Krulwich of the public radio show Radiolab noted that there is no pink in the colors of the rainbow. Pink is actually a combination of red and violet, two colors, which, if you look at a rainbow, are on the opposite sides of the arc. Remember the old colors of the rainbow mnemonic ROYGBIV? The R (red) is as far as it can get from V (violet). That’s where the trouble lies. Pink can’t exist in nature without a little rainbow-bending help, which would allow the shades of red and violet to commingle. This is leading scientists to believe, as Krulwich puts it, that “pink is a made-up color.” Krulwich explains

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HughGRection · **Joined:** Dec 2008 **Posts:** 432 **Location:** CS:S

I'm wearing pink right now. Scientists just got proved RONG!

poehalcho · **Posted:** Sat Mar 10, 2012 11:10 pm

Why deny the existence of a colour .
In fact even now pink is emitting from your screen to show it. doesn't that kinda instantly disprove it?
This is one of those typical 'ran out of things to research' cases D:

LillDev!l · **Joined:** Aug 2007 **Posts:** 2587 **Location:** OTL&OG

NuclearSilo · **Posted:** Sat Mar 10, 2012 11:40 pm

All of you are wrong. The color that people call "pink" exist but the pink light doesn't exist

omier · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 5985 **Location:** ...

poehalcho wrote:

This is one of those typical 'ran out of things to research' cases D:

This. Those guys should take a break till they come up with something better.

Gaigemasta · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 4474 **Location:**

Yes, it even appears in nature

flamingos.....

if I'm wrong correct me please

TheDrop · **Joined:** May 2008 **Posts:** 7150 **Location:** uefa2012

just mail in my Ph.D

heroo · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 6618 **Location:**

Well colors are a matter of perception. It's fun tho. Maybe extraterrestrial species, should we ever encounter them, have a different perception of colors.

TheDrop · **Joined:** May 2008 **Posts:** 7150 **Location:** uefa2012

^I have always wondered, if i was able to go see through someone else's eyes, would the colors i see be all different? Like say a rose I'd call red, but if i saw it through someone else's eyes, i would call it green (while they would still call it red)? o_O

inky · **Joined:** Nov 2006 **Posts:** 4025 **Location:**

TheDrop wrote:

^I have always wondered, if i was able to go see through someone else's eyes, would the colors i see be all different? Like say a rose I'd call red, but if i saw it through someone else's eyes, i would call it green (while they would still call it red)? o_O

Actually a popular question in philosophy classes. And I'm sure everyone's wondered about it at one time. Pink, in the aesthetic (as opposed to scientific) sense, does exist. You can claim that it's a variant of red, but then again, so is "stark red" and "Indian red" (was an actual Crayola color). Pink just so happens to be so easy to distinguish that we decided to give it its own category which ranges from "light pink" to something like "hot pink".

In a semi-related note: Did you know that the terms fruit and vegetable are only used as culinary, not scientific terms? =p

Isis · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 4171 **Location:**

You get pink from adding white to red!

Strwarrior · **Joined:** Oct 2008 **Posts:** 3799 **Location:** ....

Isis wrote:

You get pink from adding white to red!

White is not a color from the rainbow thingy, u have to mix colors from it.

takolin · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 4238 **Location:** Life

Strwarrior wrote:

Isis wrote:

You get pink from adding white to red!

White is not a color from the rainbow thingy, u have to mix colors from it.

White is all the colours of the rainbow when you combine them. Or at least that what I remember from my physics course.

Razorhead · **Joined:** Apr 2008 **Posts:** 820 **Location:**

Good thing scientists figured out everything in the universe first,
now the can occupy themself with trivial shit like this...

Isis · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 4171 **Location:**

Strwarrior wrote:

Isis wrote:

You get pink from adding white to red!

White is not a color from the rainbow thingy, u have to mix colors from it.

Er... Yeah I know white isn't a colour, neither is black. But when you mix white and red together you get pink!

Red, yellow and blue are the primary colours...
Orange, green and purple are the secondary colours!!
I can't remember what the tertiary colours are...

Adding white to a pure hue is a tint.

takolin · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 4238 **Location:** Life

NuclearSilo wrote:

All of you are wrong. The color that people call "pink" exist but the pink light doesn't exist

Pink light does exist. A better thing would be: pink light isn't monochromatic.

The Invisible · **Joined:** Jan 2011 **Posts:** 2626 **Location:** Home ._.

Really, What difference does it make ? :c

Scarth · **Joined:** Dec 2009 **Posts:** 492 **Location:** ಠ_ಠ

Poor Pink. Soon to be categorised with Pluto and Unicorns.

William-CL · **Joined:** Feb 2007 **Posts:** 7363 **Location:** N/A

TheDrop wrote:

^I have always wondered, if i was able to go see through someone else's eyes, would the colors i see be all different? Like say a rose I'd call red, but if i saw it through someone else's eyes, i would call it green (while they would still call it red)? o_O

I've thought the same thing O.O I've wondered if our visuals are all based on perception of ones self.

SM-Count · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 2761 **Location:** /wave

I knew it was unnatural!

Mirosuke · **Posted:** Tue Mar 13, 2012 3:44 am

I knew it!

MrTwilliger · **Joined:** May 2008 **Posts:** 1374 **Location:** Hiding

Isis wrote:

You get pink from adding white to red!

This

PillsHere · **Posted:** Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:01 pm

Afaik there are only 3 primary colors RYB, and it creates others by additives and subtractives. So in that sense, no. That would mean any color that is based off RYB and created with mixtures doesn't exist either.

Pink can't exist on it's own and has to be made by mixture of colors, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist, it just doesn't unless it's created, which it is..so it does. The only way pink cannot exist is if we don't have the primary colors which make it, in which case color wouldn't exist at all.

NuclearSilo · **Posted:** Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:46 pm

PillsHere wrote:

Afaik there are only 3 primary colors RYB, and it creates others by additives and subtractives. So in that sense, no. That would mean any color that is based off RYB and created with mixtures doesn't exist either.

Pink can't exist on it's own and has to be made by mixture of colors, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist, it just doesn't unless it's created, which it is..so it does. The only way pink cannot exist is if we don't have the primary colors which make it, in which case color wouldn't exist at all.

Nope wrong. If you take a glass that filter only red light and a glass that filter only blue light and put them together, you won't have yellow or green light. You got black!

And no, I don't welcome you to the forum :wink:

omier · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 5985 **Location:** ...

Filtering light and mixing paint is not the same guys.

PillsHere · **Posted:** Tue Mar 13, 2012 2:07 pm

NuclearSilo wrote:

PillsHere wrote:

Afaik there are only 3 primary colors RYB, and it creates others by additives and subtractives. So in that sense, no. That would mean any color that is based off RYB and created with mixtures doesn't exist either.

Pink can't exist on it's own and has to be made by mixture of colors, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist, it just doesn't unless it's created, which it is..so it does. The only way pink cannot exist is if we don't have the primary colors which make it, in which case color wouldn't exist at all.

Nope wrong. If you take a glass that filter only red light and a glass that filter only blue light and put them together, you won't have yellow or green light. You got black!

And no, I don't welcome you to the forum :wink:

That's a matter of what media you're dealing with. And wait..why would you think it'd make yellow?
RYB - R = YB = Green
RYB - B = RY = Orange.
Black is only present when you have no color wavelengths at all, or something that absorbs all the color wavelengths

In terms of light our eyes detect electromagnetic frequencies, and they're saying there is no "pink" wavelength, we only see it when two wavelengths are perceived at the same time. Pink has no direct wavelength, apparently, so it doesn't exist because it's not on it's own on the color specrum. But the way we see color, physically anyways, is from reflection. Why can't an object simply absorb all other wavelengths, reflecting only Red and Violet ones, thus creating pink?

Two colors combined, they created pink. But because it's not a stand alone color on the light spectrum, it apparently doesn't exist. This also means brown is not a color either. But as far as our eyes and brain is concerned, they do.

If they wanna get that technical on wavelengths though; an unopened can of paint is black, since there is no reflection of light to give us color.

And good, I wouldn't of thanked your welcoming.

*BlackFox · **Joined:** Sep 2008 **Posts:** 7923 **Location:**

What is a flamingo's colour?

Isis · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 4171 **Location:**

MrTwilliger wrote:

Isis wrote:

You get pink from adding white to red!

This

Thank you my lovely :love:

NuclearSilo · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:13 am

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