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Do colours which are not visible to human eyes exist?

Are there any colours that our human eye cannot comprehend but other animals can see? The ability to see colours is the property of our eyes. For example an average dog would see less colours than us. ...
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If a human was moving fast enough how bright would the blue-shifted heat be? Would it be detectable by an average human eye on an average night?

I guess another way to answer this question would be if our eyes had the capability to detect the peak black-body wavelength that is emitted by humans would it be enough radiation to detect if we were ...
Seibert Tregoning's user avatar
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7 answers
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Do the "colors" live in a 3-dimensional vector space? [closed]

Do the "colors" form a 3-dimensional vector space? Colors are just different frequencies of electromagnetic lights, from the low frequency (infra-red, red) to the high frequency (blue, ...
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If we had a good enough eyesight would we be able to see atoms and the fuzziness of the quantum world?

If our eyes had enough precision and calibration to see hundreds of thousands smaller scales than we do, surely our brains would also need a major tuneup to process it. But could our classical body ...
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