for all the thinkers
 

For all the wonderers out there. I figured I'd start this and see where it'll go. I was reading for one of my classes and found the writer asking questions like when you're 5 and you have to know everything, whether it has an answer or not. So here's everyone's chance to write down the questions or thoughts you wanna ask or say. Just to give people something to think about.

I have so many I don't know where to start but we'll go with this for now:
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fly?

Ever wondered how the wind gets started or how the clouds stay together in those weird shapes.

Why is it that girls expect guys to do or say things but when they do it's not good enough?

I'll think of more later I'm sure. Have a great night everyone! :)

Why do they call it a "TV Set" when you only get one?

Why do women wear a "Pair" of panties but just ONE bra?

Why do you drive in a parkway and park in a driveway?

Why does 711 have locks on their doors when they're open 24/7?

Are you allowed to chew gum during a fast?

Why do they call it a fast when it goes so damn slow?

Why do they call a women's prison a PENAL colony?

I will try my hardest to make sense.....
 

I have wondered if what I recognize as the color blue, you may recognize as the color orange. For example, my shirt is orange and we both recognize the color of my shirt as orange, but is the orange you see actually red and the orange I see see actually blue? We both call the color of my shirt orange, but we each see it as a different color, but don't know b/c to both of us, this is orange. Get me? Hope I made sense.

My brain hurts from all of this thinking. :p

Re: I will try my hardest to make sense.....
 

The answer is rooted in physical chemistry. Your blue shirt absorbs every wavelength of color besides blue, and thus the blue light is reflected back to you. Your eyes have special cells that recognize this wavelength of color (and other colors too-- the receptors will observe paris of color) and cause neurons to fire "blue!" to your brain. So the color you see is really just a particular wavelength of light. Does that make sense?

The reason the shirt is blue and not any other color has to do with it's chemical makeup (what kind of electron configuration the molecule has). So, as long as we have functioning color photoreceptors in our eyes (colorblind people don't have functioning color receptors), and our brains are wired to pass on those neuronal signals from photoreceptors, we will all see blue as blue.

There's much more detail to it than that, but I can't really remember. Hope this helps.
-M

My boyfriend is blue/green colorblind. I wonder what it would be like to see those colors like he does?

Check this site out, it might help you....

http://webexhibits.org/causesofcolors/2.html

Re: I will try my hardest to make sense.....
 

I have *always* wondered this, too! Color is subjective, people that study this stuff will tell you that no 2 people see colors EXACTLY the same. So I always wonder how different it can be.

::bangs head against desk:: NO NO make it stop!!!! :eek:

Re: for all the thinkers
 

The wind is started due to the movement of air from high pressure to low pressure. you see, the sun's rays will heat the air, causing air pressure to rise and the air to heat. as the air rises, air pressure will fall. when the sun goes down there is less wind because air pressure equalizes.

:) thanks for the info.
those specific questions came from my reading. which had absolutely nothing to do what the book is really about i've come to find out

I always wondered how "FOOD" got its name. It's funny, it's such a weird sounding name to describe something you eat. "FOOD"....

Re: I will try my hardest to make sense.....
 

That was kind of part of my thesis for Child Developmental Theories- I proposed something along the lines that if a child was taught that the color orange was called "blue" then that is how they would know it. Nothing stopped your parents from teaching you that the creature commonly known as a dog was called a "shmegeggie," but they didn't. Scientifically speaking, we know that everyone sees things (such as color) differently, how then DO parents TRULY teach children things like the recognition of color? ....etc.

great thread by the way :)

Re: Re: I will try my hardest to make sense.....
 

Wow, thanks for that explanation. I am hugely into science, so I know the whole deal, but I still think, "How do they really know?!" You can't see how I see things because that's just impossible. It's the "what if" part of me that makes me wonder. :) Thank you for trying to explain though.

Do we call an orange an orange because it is orange, or is orange orange because of the orange?