Color me thoughtful
Thought for the day (because after all, who needs more than one?):"All we ever truly see is light;" color is just the uniquely visual aspect of our experience of a specific microstructure. That is, just as bats experience shapes and sizes as sound, we experience the light that hits a particular microstructure of an object as color. We could experience it in different ways; take for instance, touching a white and a black cotton shirt, both of which have been out in the sun. The black one will be hotter. We normally chalk this up to the color, but that's not entirely accurate. What would seem to be more accurate would be to say that the same microstructure which causes us to see the color of the black T-shirt as opposed to that of the white T-shirt is also a more heat absorbant microstructure.
The implications for Judaism: Don't feel so so bad about all the ridiculously colored Kipahs you've worn over the years. You don't have terrible taste in color schemes, you just have terrible taste in microstructures. The same goes for married orthodox women and fake hair.
posted by Shlomocles @ 8:12 AM
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