Mauve: a color that does not exist in reality.. How is that possible?

In a new scientific discovery that may shock fans of the color purple, it turns out that this favorite color for many is not "real" as some believe. According to a recent study, purple does not exist in reality, but is merely an "illusion" created by the human brain.

Scientists explain this discovery by stating that the human eye receives light at different wavelengths, so when blue light mixes with red light, there is confusion in how they are processed due to the difference in their wavelengths.

This confusion causes the brain to create a "new color" to interpret this interaction between blue and red, which is what we see as purple.

The mechanism lies in the fact that the brain relies on signals from eye cells called "cones," there are three types of cones: one that senses blue and violet light, another that senses green, and a third that picks up red and orange.

When both cones sensitive to red and blue light are activated simultaneously, the brain resolves this conflicting signal by merging these two colors into a unified circle, resulting in the color purple.

Although purple appears like any other color we see, this visual trick is nothing but a cognitive solution attempting to understand and interpret the overlapping light. In reality, there is no separate purple color in the visible light spectrum.

Despite this scientific fact that may be shocking to some, purple remains one of the favorite colors for millions of people around the world.