• JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    It stands to reason. The light at the beginning and end of the day has a lower color temperature, i.e. (confusingly) reddish rather than bluish. Blue midday-temperature light is therefore something that evolution has prepared us to see in the middle of the day rather than late at night.

    • joella@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 month ago

      “color temperature” makes more sense if you think of it as hot iron - red hot iron is cooler than white (blue) hot. People usually think of red fire and blue ice though.