Primary Notes converted from Primary Colors

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If yellow (577-597), red (625-750), and blue (450-495) are the three primary electromagnetic visible light wavelengths which blend to make all the other colors, what are the three primary audible sound wavelengths which blend to make all the other notes?

I feel like this should help, but I am a dolt:

Wavelength frequency convert lambda Hz sound conversion acoustics acoustic audio radio measure speed of sound and radio typical waves wave length light vacuum equation formula for frequency speed of light color electromagnetic spectrum - sengpielaudio Sengpiel Berlin (I emailed Alex. Iā€™ll let you know if I hear back.)

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Sound is more complex, there are too many wavelengths or ā€˜hzā€™ that exist for there to be a primary three that could combine to make all others.

There is Frequency, Wavelengths and Pitch as well. Which is a=c/f

A = Wavelength
C = Speed of sound
F = Frequency

Then for music there are Overtones and Harmonics.

But I know 432 Hz is pretty soothing.

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Who told you that? I donā€™t think thatā€™s true.

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This thread is vastly underestimating how many wavelengths of light there areā€¦

It does seem Earthly animals have better senses toward sound though. The eye is the most advanced and recently evolved organ, therefore perhaps, the most limited (for now). But our technology detects light waves far above and below whatā€™s visible (infrared and ultraviolet).

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Siri. But s/he also said red is in the neighborhood of 700.

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See:

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ā€œWhiteā€ Light / Translucent Light, are the visible spectrums available to the human eye. Wavelengths that are ā€œabove or below, ultraviolet or infraredā€ are ā€œBlackā€ or invisible to the human eye, similar to how humans cannot ā€œseeā€ microwaves when you turn on your microwave, or x-rays, or any other forms of radiation.

So ā€˜blacknessā€™ accounts for lightwaves that are too fast or too slow, in frequency, to the human eyeā€™s ability to perceive.

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Itā€™s a good thing we know how to make visible light when weā€™re not facing the sun.

Can we get back to the OP?

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I donā€™t think Siri told you that. I think Siri told you something else, and you misinterpreted it.

What it sounds like Siri was talking about was human eye cone sensitivities. Itā€™s not that the wavelengths blend to make other colours, itā€™s that the signals from our cones blend.

Hearing doesnā€™t work like that though, hearing has a much broader range of sensitivities. We have 3 colour sensing cones, but we have over 3000 different pitch sensing ā€œhairsā€, I guess they are, in our ears.

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This page deals in measurable stuff:

Focus, man.

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ā€¦you ARE aware that light photons bounce off pretty much every surface in existence, right??

ā€¦No.

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what about being absorbed n stuff

like sound ā€¦ echosā€¦ or ā€¦ doesnā€™t

OP.

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Lightwaves are ā€œsmallerā€ than sound waves, which is why light can shine through objects that sound canā€™t.

Hypothetically there are radiation waves that can travel through entire planets. Sound cannot do the same, unless it were a massive strike force, like an asteroid slamming into a planet and destroying it.

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Something something sonar.

So anyway.

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RGB becoming White just seems like a function of consciousness, there is probably not ā€œwhite lightā€ in nature. Color is a 3 dimensional property of consciousness: hue, saturation and luminance/value.

We might not be able to see more colors because 3 dimensions might be the maximal limit of color. White is the clipping function when the eyes are overloaded with color.

White noise is when you blend too much sound together and all you hear is noise. White represents the maximal energy of a system before clipping.

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light waves and sound come in different frequencies, lower frequency sound waves like bass waves can travel through solid objects, similar to how lower frequency light waves can also travel through solid objects.

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I think this is it. Hz might actually be THz when it comes to visible light (below).

Wavelengths nm

10^-7

400-700nm

Frequencies Hz

10^1-10^5

Visible Light:

deep red 675nm, 400Hz

red 650nm, 425Hz

redorange 625nm, 450Hz

orange 600nm, 475Hz

light orange 575nm, 500Hz

yellow 550nm, 525Hz

yellowgreen 525nm, 550Hz

green 500nm, 575Hz

bluegreen 475nm, 600Hz

blue 450nm, 625Hz

indigo 425nm, 650Hz

purple/violet 400nm, 675Hz

One Octave (ĀæI think?) of Audible Sound (matched with visible light)

purple/violet A#/Bb 1.46m, 233.082Hz

deep red B 1.378m, 246.942Hz

Red middle C 1.301m, 261.626Hz

red orange C#/Db 1.228m, 277.183Hz

orange D 1.159m, 293.665Hz

light orange D#/Eb 1.094m, 311.127

Yellow E 1.032m, 329.628Hz

yellowgreen F 0.974m, 349.228 Hz

green F#/Gb 0.92m, 369.994

bluegreen G 0.868m, 391.995Hz

Blue G#/Ab 0.819, 415.305

indigo tuning A 0.773m, 440Hz

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If I left out a sourceā€¦ let me know.

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Then thereā€™s this heh.

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