Thursday, April 8, 2010

Color Blind

Some birds are able to see iridescent, ultra-violet colors, shades of neon light that human beings can hardly imagine. Dogs , I have learned, are not color blind, but possess only 2 types of cones in their eyes, which limits the amount of color they can perceive, but they do in fact see colors, mostly yellows and shades of bluish-purple. We have 3 types of cones, making our vision tri-chromatic.
  • For all the lovely colors of the rainbow we are blessed to see in our world, there are many many other wavelengths of color we've never actually seen. It's not that they don't exist, but the simply remain invisible to us. Imagine for a moment what this really means. We see objects because light reflects off from them and enters our perception, but if we are incapable of perceiving most of the wavelengths of light being reflected in our world, then Imagine what is here that we can not see...
  • We all know about X-rays used in revealing the bones hidden inside our skins, but did you know that they are along the wavelength spectrum of colors? How about Radio waves; like FM or AM? These to are hidden aspects along the color spectrum that we simply can not see. Television waves, Broad band digital etc. all fall somewhere on the spectrum.
  • How about the spirits of the dead? Light beings? Angels or Demons? Aliens life forms? Spirits Guides? What if? What if?
  • Though I can offer no empirical proof of these later categories, I can't; in good faith; rule them out either. None of us truly can. for the sciences require proof to dismiss as well as prove. So for now I'll enjoy the suspension of doubt these ideas provide for me and relish the rousing sense of potentiality for life they offer.

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