
#115: Quantum consciousness; next decade of space exploration; songs played on rat whiskers
The world, the universe and us
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The Color Wheel in a Rainbow
Aac newton was famous for his theory of color and separating white light into the colours of the spectrum. He thought, there are seven music notes, so why can't there be seven colours? So he actually added two colours to his, to his color wheel, which is orange and indigo. But there's a really weird thing, which i won't go into great detail, bute. He actually then says, the two new colors should only have the semitones of the scale. If you played it on my infinite piano, if i transposed it down? Well, have a listen to this. This is what a piano rainbow sounds like transposed into our range.
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