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Almost Right
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No, it's because money is green and money is the root of all evil so since plants have roots, plants are also green. Except for all the myriad different species and cultivars that aren't green at all, they ain't got no money. They ain't got no car to take you on a date. Tthey can't even buy you flowers.
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Chlorophyll, more like bore-aphyll.
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Actually, they just hate green so they refuse to absorb it, they're saying "hey green light, get the fuck out of here!"
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Thats how all colours work though.
Edit: and as I post that, and edit this, I'm realizing more and more that isn't remotely true.
It's how many colours work.
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This is to science what homeopathy is to medicine.
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I don't understand how anyone could think that the sun is yellow, without questioning why they're able to see other colors in daylight besides yellow. It's like they don't even have the most basic understanding of how light and color work. It is impossible for the sun to be any color other than white, otherwise other colors wouldn't exist.
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For anyone who wants to know the real answer. Unfiltered sunlight is white in appearance covering the full visual light spectrum. Once this light hits the atmosphere higher frequencies such as violet and blue are scattered as the lower frequencies pass through making the sun appear yellow. Most of the light still makes it through the first pass however so most of the full spectrum still passes through is reflected again by the earths surface. Once this bounced light hits the atmosphere again on the underside the higher frequencies are again scattered letting lower frequencies pass making the sky appear blue. Of the light that hits the plants leaves green light is reflected while everything else is absorbed making the leaf appear green.
but WHY do plants reflect green light instead of any other color? you skipped the most important part!
Because the way chlorophyll is shaped at a molecular level, it acts like a filter. It lets red and blue light pass, but reflects green light.
I don't think it's pure white. Given the type of our star I remember reading it's actually yellow with a hint of green.
It peaks in yellow/green, but its not a ton more yellow than the rest of the visible spectrum so its still very white, the yellow appearance from earth's surface is still more due to atmospheric filtering than the actual spectrum its emitting.