I thought this basic video was kind of neat in its explanation of light and our perception therein.

A little kiddy for some, myself included, but neat all the same.

We'll be white black after these messages.


So mirrors are green, good to know.

Green, you say!??

Cool vid overall

optics is a piece of shit

i fucking hate everyone involved in/was involved in the field of optics

fuck them all

and fuck electromagnetism and quantum mechanics too

in fact, fuck all profs

Looks like SOMEONE quit Physics and became a business major.

nah i went to do computational math

realized i was too retarded to be an experimental physicist or an aerospace engineer

you are not alone

well if youre into math, i might see why you hate physics

uh, what?

They have very conflicting philosophies.
Math is proof-based... you start with a small set of axioms and expand outward using proofs.
Physics is the opposite... you start by making observations and then construct a model which "fits".

For a mathematician physics can be very unsettling.
It's loaded with formulas which aren't proven to be "true"... but have just worked whenever used in the past (whereas in math, it's been shown that the Collatz Conjecture is true for the first 5,700,000,000,000,000,000 integers, as well as other significant evidence in favor of it, but the Collatz Conjecture won't be considered "true" unless a rigorous proof is found)
As a result the "truths" in physics often change (Newtonian physics overturned by relativity, which was in turn trumped by string theory)... and all existing models are only approximations, and aren't necessarily what actually happens (especially considering that existing models contradict each other), and there isn't as much emphasis on finding out why formulas work as just showing that they do through experiments.