If you could only have one color, what would you choose

I'm interested in learning more about lightwave colors in space.

I once thought of a good book title "The Blue Museum". I thought it would illustrate a search for our history. The shortest space lightwave color is blue. This would be similar to the shortest amount of history we have discovered. So, it's a blue museum.

I'm not sure I remember all of the correct scientific terms because it's been a long time since I learned about it. I've probably gotten it all mixed up.

BBB

I would pick yellow if I were allowed to pick a non-basic color- hands down - I like being surrounded by yellow - it feels like being in the sun.

If I had to choose a basic color - I'd pick blue - like the sea.

Purple... mix of red and blue. ;-)

BB, green and brown ARE mixtures. Usually, in most color systems, you find red, blue, and yellow as the "basic" colors and every other color is simply a mixture of these three.

I would chose violet due to the uniqueness of shade, or white, since it is an accumulation of all colors.

ps: I taught color science.

BBB posted: "I'm interested in learning more about lightwave colors in space.

I once thought of a good book title "The Blue Museum". I thought it would illustrate a search for our history. The shortest space lightwave color is blue. This would be similar to the shortest amount of history we have discovered. So, it's a blue museum.

I'm not sure I remember all of the correct scientific terms because it's been a long time since I learned about it. I've probably gotten it all mixed up."

I finally remembered the word I was trying to describe: infrared wavelengths. The Blue color has the shortest length.

BBB

The Electromagnetic Spectrum header graphic
RADIO WAVES | MICROWAVES | INFRARED | VISIBLE LIGHT | ULTRAVIOLET | X-RAYS | GAMMA RAYS

The Infrared

Diagram of the infrared part of the spectrum showing the far, mid, and near ranges.

Infrared light lies between the visible and microwave portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Infrared light has a range of wavelengths, just like visible light has wavelengths that range from red light to violet. "Near infrared" light is closest in wavelength to visible light and "far infrared" is closer to the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The longer, far infrared wavelengths are about the size of a pin head and the shorter, near infrared ones are the size of cells, or are microscopic.

Campfire. Far infrared waves are thermal. In other words, we experience this type of infrared radiation every day in the form of heat! The heat that we feel from sunlight, a fire, a radiator or a warm sidewalk is infrared. The temperature-sensitive nerve endings in our skin can detect the difference between inside body temperature and outside skin temperature

Infrared light is even used to heat food sometimes - special lamps that emit thermal infrared waves are often used in fast food restaurants!

Shorter, near infrared waves are not hot at all - in fact you cannot even feel them. These shorter wavelengths are the ones used by your TV's remote control.

Complete information source:
http://science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/imagers/ems/infrared.html

Coreshine from a Dark Cloud
Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Laurent Pagani (Obs.Paris/CNRS), Jurgen Steinacker (Obs. Paris/MPIA) et al.

Explanation: Stars and their planets are born in cold, dark, interstellar clouds of gas and dust. While exploring the clouds at infrared wavelengths, astronomers have made a surprising discovery -- dozens of cases where dense cloud cores shine by reflecting infrared starlight. Based on archival Spitzer Space Telescope data, these panels illustrate the newly described phenomenon, known as coreshine. At longer infrared wavelengths (right) the core of cloud Lynds 183 is dark, but at shorter infrared wavelengths (left) the core clearly shines, scattering light from nearby stars. As seen in these panels, the elongated core covers a mere 1.5 light-years. The scattering requires dust grains that are about 10 times larger than previously thought to exist in the clouds, about 1 micron in size instead of 0.1 micron. For comparison, a human hair is about 100 microns thick. The larger dust grains indicated by coreshine could change models of the early phases of star and planet formation, a still mysterious process hidden within the interstellar clouds. Dark nebula Lynds 183 lies around 325 light-years away in the constellation Serpens.

Photos: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/

Crescent Mat Board 1073 Biscay Blue

I'd just live with Djjd. I like that color of blue.

RED

( I 'm glad we won the Third World War, so I don 't have to make any exculpatory explanations.)





David

i really wanted 917 Twilight, but i guess they stopped making that particular product in the 20+ years i've been out of picture framing

Red

Red

Red

The color of the root chakra, blood, warmth and the womb.

Red is the color of life.

Just not beige or brown. I drove through Wyoming once (not near the beautiful Grand Teton area) - just the boring old plains and all I saw for 10 hours was different shades of beige. That would be just plain old torture it that were the only color.

I fluctuate between beige and ecru depending on my mood swings.

acid green

if I can't have acid green, then periwinkle blue

I'm not a big fan of the pure colours.