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Perception vs objective reality

21 October 2017

9:00 AM

21 October 2017

9:00 AM

I hate to tell you this, but every time you watch television you are being duped. In fact there are only three accurate things you will ever see on television. These are the colours red, green and blue.

Each pixel on a screen can transmit three colours only. If blue alone is illuminated, the screen is blue.

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