• glue_snorter@lemmy.sdfeu.org
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    1 year ago

    That one’s easy. Colour is a quality that we discern in light with wavelengths around the 600 - 800 nm range. That wavelength is enormously larger than atomic scale. Visible light, practically speaking, cannot even reflect off an atom - you need to get way way down past the X-ray wavelength to get even some reflection.