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I am looking to subscribe to a physics journal/magazine which doesn't cost me 6000 a year, and that will keep me informed with cutting edge news on general physics and latest research papers being published, as well as having a good deal of proof in there. I am taking my last school year and...

Nah, it really doesn't, the underlying concept is esentially the same, you are just calling it one thing and I'm calling it another. The physics is the same, the language is the bad part. You are a physics teacher? wau

color |ˈkələr| ( Brit. colour) noun 1 the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way the object reflects or emits light : the lights flickered and changed color. • one, or any mixture, of the constituents into which light can be...

you are missing the point, he has to define what he means by colour. Our perception of purple isn't defined by one wavelength, I agree. But the theoretical colour (as in case one of my previous post) IS defined by one wavelength, as it would depend on the ability the machine you are measuring...

In my opinion, the key to this question is clearly what you really mean by a colour. If you mean a colour in the more empirical sense of the word, as in you mean that a colour is a certain wavelength of light emitted within the visible spectrum, then there can clearly not be infinite colours, as...