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Why is visible light white?

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The way color is viewed by the human eye is a spectrum of colors, Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indago, Violet. Those are the only colors the human eye can see. By mixing colors you get others, teal, grey, pink so on and so forth. everything has a color to them as defined by humans. Water is blue because when a white light is shined on it the ony color it doesn't absorb is blue, it gets reflected and in turn makes it visible to the human eye. A white item absorbs all color making it appear white.

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When the first animals and humans came into being, their eyes and brains evolved to perfectly see, using the light that was available - the blue-white light from the Sun. This was and is very handy for seeing colors of objects, since all the visible colors are included in white light.

If animals and humans had begun on another planet with reddish-blue light, then they would have developed to see perfectly, using the reddish-blue light that was available to them.

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Due to 'Raman Effect'.

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