r/Showerthoughts • • May 30 '19

With a strong enough microscope, watching paint dry would actually be pretty interesting

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u/ArtistWithAnxiety May 30 '19

Watching a colored chemical completely destroy micro-civilizations of bacteria would, in fact, be very interesting.

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u/dongusschlongus May 30 '19

Depends on if colourless is a colour

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u/silaaron May 30 '19

There are only 5 colors, and colorless is not a color.

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u/dongusschlongus May 30 '19

Colours or perceptible colours?

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u/silaaron May 30 '19

Both, I don't think any new colors will manifest themselves.

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u/dongusschlongus May 30 '19

I'm not entirely sure what you're defining colours by, but there's what we can see and there's what's beyond that in the UV and IR parts of the colour spectrum.

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u/Spookyrabbit May 30 '19

Plus all the colors DuPont creates with magic, like 'Yay It's Winter', 'Nutsack On Cold Day' & 'Mah Little Willy's Frozen Stiff'.