Why are the cones in our eyes red, green and blue?
15 October 2006
Question
Why are the cones in our eyes red, green and blue? Why not red, yellow and blue? How can we see yellow?
Answer
They're not actually red, green and blue at all, although that's what we tend to call them. They're actually blue, green and yellow. The long wavelength cone absorbs mainly in the yellow and not in the red, so that's how we can see yellow.
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