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Colour theory and scientific truth

Introduction
When I was a little kid I used to have a kaleidoscope (a cylinder with mirrors in it, at one side there where all kinds of coloured beads and at the other side you could look through it. When you looked through it and turned it round, you saw all kinds of coloured figures.) After I looked through it for the first time I desperately tried to find out how it worked and where all those beautiful coloured figures came from. I understood that it had something to do with light and darkness, because there appeared no coloured image when I put my hand before the side where the light was going into the cylinder. It had also something to do with the beads, because one of my friends had a kaleidoscope without beads (he was always very rude with his toys so think he smashed his kaleidoscope against the wall or something) and it appeared that it didn’t work anymore.

It was during physics class at secondary school that I learned more about colours. We did an experiment with a pris...

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