I'm sorry, but you aren't exactly making a lot of sense. While theoretically there are a lot of things that could happen for split seconds, depending on which receptors get hit, etc, the odds against them happening are incredibly high. And the odds against them continuing to happen long enough to get noticed are so high that that is effectively impossible.

To a very high degree of precision, a rainbow will cause specific pure frequencies to arrive at specific angles, with a calculable correlation between the angle and the spectrum that arrives. To a reasonable degree of precision, you will perceive a specific frequency of light as a specific colour. Most people will have the similar responses to specific frequencies of light. And there is simply no pure frequency of light that is perceived as pink.

This is pretty basic, and should be pretty simple. I have verified this in the past while looking at real rainbows, pictures of rainbows, and the output of prisms. Philosophical musings on the caprices of point sources, chance photons, and pure frequencies don't change it. Neither do howlers about why the output from cameras on various space missions needs massaging to produce natural looking photographs. (Giant hint, the various cameras used on space missions generally have frequency responses that aren't close to any of the major receptors in our eyes.)

As far as I am concerned this thread is over. Respond if you like, but I see no point in repeating myself.

In reply to Re^8: I'm not a PhD but... by tilly
in thread How many colors does a rainbow have? by ambrus

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