• Spuddaccino@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Ah. That makes sense. Something about the harmonics, though:

    Sound generates those harmonics because it’s physically vibrating sensors in our ear, so we get a 1 to 1 translation of the waveform. Light doesn’t, because it’s received by 4 different sensors that are sensitive at different ranges and in different phases. The reason we don’t experience “blueness” in the infrared spectrum is because our infrared sensors don’t know what “blue” is.