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   Jonathan de Boyne Pollard to All   
   Re: the spectrum of purple   
   09 Aug 11 18:27:54   
   
   XPost: alt.usage.english, sci.physics   
   From: J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM   
      
   > In summary: our eyes don't see reality, they see a filtered version of it.   
   >   
   > It would be interesting to see what a spectrum analyser would say about   
   > the colour purple. I suspect that it would find a mixture of two or more   
   > colours, where for the purposes of this paragraph I define "colour" to   
   > mean a band-limited range of frequencies.   
      
   That's something that *must* be somewhere on the World Wide Web. ... (-:   
      
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