What If You Discovered A New Color?

Making something that has never been seen before could seem like an impossibility. But what if there was a slight but unprecedented alteration in the very essence of how we view the world around us? What if you discovered a new colour? is the intriguing question we're addressing today on Unveiled. Do you have a thing for numbers? Are you a fervent inquirer? Why not join Unveiled to see more videos like this one? Also, ring the bell for more intriguing material! Beyond simply stating that a color is "something you can see," identifying a color is a difficult task. It is a characteristic of visual perception that language designates by the names of its numerous categories, such as purple, green, and orange.

However, it is only because of the way our eyes are built and the special cells they contain that we can truly appreciate color. Although our retinas contain over 90 million rod cells, the more basic type of photoreceptor that is typically concerned with light and dark, they primarily function in dim light. The majority of our ability to perceive colour, however, is due to cone cells. Because different colours have different wavelengths, the visible light spectrum—our "rainbow"—creates a variety of colours. Although there are only six million cone cells in each eye, they are responsible for processing information from different wavelengths, which is how we can perceive the many colours around us. More specifically, humans see in trichromatic colour vision because of the L-, M-, and S-cones, which see long, medium, and short wavelengths (or red, green, and blue) accordingly. There are, of course, exceptions. Affected individuals struggle to see reds, red-green colours, or blue-yellows because one or more of these cone types is damaged, which affects an estimated 250 million people globally. Technically, developing technology to correct colour blindness, as some businesses are striving to do, is one technique to make a new colour that humans can perceive. If it works, colorblind people will be able to see things they previously wouldn't have been able to even imagine.But even if you don't have colour blindness, it's practically impossible to make a new colour due to the biology of our eyes. Without fully rewriting established human biology, that is, you might be able to create a new or uncommon shade along the existing colour spectrum, but coming up with anything entirely original is out of the question. Therefore, you would also be a completely original human being if you simply happened to come across a ball of "new colour." Or perhaps you're just a futuristic human with some kind of cybernetic eyes that will one day enable humans to sense light that is currently invisible to the human eye due to differences in the electromagnetic spectrum.

In the natural world, examples of this kind of thing already exist. The mantis shrimp boasts what are possibly the planet's most unusual eyes. The mantis shrimp contains twelve to sixteen different types of color-coding cone cells, compared to humans' three. When you take into account the shades and blends that are conceivable between those additional colours as well, this indicates that these shrimps can actually see up to thirteen more colors than we can. Mantis shrimps can access other regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, from ultraviolet to near-infrared light, thanks to their exceptional visual setup. Maybe we'll see individuals intentionally modified with mantis shrimp eyes if we can splice the genomes of diverse creatures together in the future—a really terrifying but also pretty likely scenario. Such a transformation would undoubtedly provide a very difficult ethical dilemma and might possibly be too much for the human brain to handle. Although a connection has not been proven, mantis shrimps are also notoriously aggressive, and it's possible that this behaviour is related to their overly sensitive eyes. Who knows how people would respond to a dramatically improved eyeball if that were the case. However, there are also butterflies here. Some of which have five distinct varieties of cone cells, giving them two more colours than a human. Since butterflies aren't known to be particularly aggressive, unlike the mantis shrimp, our hypothetical super-vision might not be too uncomfortable. In actuality, it is really normal to generally seek for new colours. We've been mixing purportedly distinct hues for ages, from scientists to designers, yet due to visual constraints, a "new colour" is always just an artificially produced hue or tone that we've never combined before.Oregon State University invented the colour YInMn in 2009.

Blue; a particularly vivid shade of blue that Crayola later took and turned into a crayon. Similar to this, a pharmaceutical company unintentionally generated the classic sports car color Ferrari Red in the 1970s. This PR254 shade of red was later mass-manufactured. However, when both colours are stripped away, YInMIN Blue and Ferrari Red remain their original colours. They still aren't that tiny ball of brand-new colour that has never before been observed. It's a wholly foreign idea that occasionally appears in popular sci-fi, and if it were ever discovered, it would radically alter the way we think about the Earth, the cosmos, and life in general.

The person who is aware of and is able to sense the colour that no one else believes in, however, is perhaps in the scariest scenario. You would be all alone in the way you perceive life and unable to explain anything to anyone else since it would be completely unknown to them. Even the words in the dictionary wouldn't describe what was in front of you. You would likely end up being the focus of never-ending scientific research or else employed for your ostensibly supernatural skills, such as serving as a human radiation detector if your enhanced senses enable you to do so.Of course, it's always possible that in the future, humans will simply grow better, more capable eyes, allowing us to gradually see a wider range of colours. But until then, if you discovered a new colour tomorrow, you would be one in seven billion; a rare specimen of humanity, strangely cut off from the rest of society by a linguistic barrier that prevents you from expressing the indescribably and exquisite things your inhuman eyes allow.