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In the light from the sun how come you con not see colors in the sun beam?


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You CAN see the colors! You see them all around you - bouncing off colored objects etc. Those colored objects do not emit light of their own (except for light bulbs and similar hot objects) - that light came from the sun (or the light bulbs...) But if you jumbled all the colors together, what would Arthur Smith


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