Does the Colour Pink Exist Only in Our Minds?

The favorite color of the fair sex , pink, may not actually exist, reveal scientists.

The trouble, the researchers argue, lies in the fact that pink is a combination of red and violet, two colours, which are on the opposite sides of the spectrum in a rainbow.

So, pink can't exist in nature without bending the colours of the rainbow to allow red and violet to commingle, a theoretical impossibility.

As colour is a construct of our eyes and brains, when you look at a pink object you are not actually seeing pink wavelengths of light.

It only appears pink because certain wavelengths of light are reflected while others are absorbed, quenched, by the pigments.

Therefore Pink is a reflective colour, not a transmissive colour people can see it because the brain translates light bouncing off it.

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