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Can you see these FORBIDDEN colors?!
Can you see these FORBIDDEN colors?!
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- Did you know there are forbidden colors?
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(bright upbeat music) I've got a challenge for you.
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Here's a blue crayon and a green crayon.
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Now imagine the color between these two,
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blue-green, like this.
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That was pretty easy, right?
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Now I want you to picture a crayon
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that's the mix of these two, red and green.
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I'm not talking about brown or something,
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I want you to imagine
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what an actual mix of those two colors would look like.
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It's pretty hard, isn't it?
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Probably impossible, actually. And it's not your fault.
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It's biologically forbidden.
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We sense color with receptors called cone cells in our eyes
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that are sensitive to these wavelengths.
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But those cones don't send a red signal
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or a green signal to your brain,
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they don't know what color of light is hitting them,
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they only know how much light is hitting them
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that they're sensitive to, and how excited they are.
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But your visual system does a cool trick.
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It basically subtracts the green signal from the red signal.
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If that's a big positive value,
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it means you're seeing more red light.
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If it's negative, you're seeing more green light.
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But it also means you can't see equal red and green
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at the same time.
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Red and green mixed is an impossible color.
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We're just not wired for it.
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Try it for yourself.
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Pause this and stare at these squares cross-eyed,
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and tell me what you see where the colors overlap.
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For me, my brain just keeps flipping back and forth
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between green and red, it's so weird.
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There are also colors you can experience
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that don't exist in the real world at all.
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Look at this green square for several seconds.
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Don't take your eye off of it.
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Don't swipe away to another video.
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Just relax and stare. Pause if you need to.
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Okay, now look at a white background.
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You should see a red
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that's more vivid than any red that exists in nature.
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It's called super luminous red.
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It happens because the green cone cells in your eyes
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get exhausted and that mega red signal takes over.
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These kind of impossible colors
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are called chimerical colors.
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And there are even imaginary colors.
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If we could somehow just stimulate, say, these cones,
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your brain would perceive a green that's brighter
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and greener than any green possible in nature.
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But this is impossible
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because our cone sensitivities overlap.
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We can't just stimulate one type.
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Except scientists just did that.
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They used micro lasers to target just one type of cone cell,
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and people actually saw that hyper green.
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The scientists named this color olo.
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But unless your crayons start shooting lasers at you,
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you probably won't see that anytime soon.
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