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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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Applies to many other colors as well. I "understand" why that is but it hurts my brain to think about.

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Colors are physical wavelengths of light within a spectrum between UV and IR. WTF are you talking about.

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 1 points 15 hours ago

Colors don't exist in the physical world. Yellow is just how our brain intreprets a certain wavelenght of light. The qualia of it exists only in your consciousness.

[–] musicalphysics@discuss.online 1 points 16 hours ago

I’m a physicist and no, color is not a physical property of light. Color is a subjective experience created by our mind in response to electrical signals from our eyes.