So, what is Faster, Red or Yellow?
Discussion
Sounds good to me. The 91 car was Red!
Well... I've said it before...
Red, Proven to be fastest with the assistance of science
Light travels the same speed through a vacuum at all wavelengths, but when we send the light through something other than a vacuum, like glass we see that light bends/slows, this is seen through snells law below
n1*sin(theta1) = n2*sin(theta2)
The parts of the equation n1 & n2 are called the index of refraction, this is the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum divided by the speed of light in that substance, so an index of refraction of 1 means that you are in a vacuum, because the speed of light travels the same speed it would in a vacuum. But if you send light through water, water has an index of refraction and light slows down. The process of light slowing down bends the angle at which the direct ray of light travels, so the MORE light slows down the MORE it bends, now say you have a drop of water suspended in a vacuum above your head, white light(which is composed of all frequencies of visible light) hits this clear drop of water and is slowed down and bends, but the different frequencies of light that compose the white light bend different amounts (this amount is small but visible from a distance) the lower frequency light is less affected by the drop of water as it has a longer wavelength and oscillates a lesser amount of times through the distance of the water drop, the higher frequency light oscillates many times through the same water drop and is slowed down more because of it, so it bends more. This process is called diffraction and causes the spectrum of colors in white light to diffract when sent through matter. The blue light(higher frequency) is bent more and the red light is bend less and through this distance of bending is a gradient of light that we call a rainbow.
So, the speed of light is the same for all frequencies in a vacuum BUT when you send light through matter is slows down a certain amount, red light (lower frequency) travels faster than blue light (higher frequency).
The lower frequencies are affected less by traveling through matter, this is why infrared light is used in fiber optics as opposed to ultraviolet or visible light.
Using the Acronym "ROYGBIV", (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) Those are the colours of the spectrum from lowest frequency to highest frequency, so red light travels faster than all the colours that have a higher frequency than it.
So to sum up....
Red is proven to be fastest...
Red, Proven to be fastest with the assistance of science
Light travels the same speed through a vacuum at all wavelengths, but when we send the light through something other than a vacuum, like glass we see that light bends/slows, this is seen through snells law below
n1*sin(theta1) = n2*sin(theta2)
The parts of the equation n1 & n2 are called the index of refraction, this is the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum divided by the speed of light in that substance, so an index of refraction of 1 means that you are in a vacuum, because the speed of light travels the same speed it would in a vacuum. But if you send light through water, water has an index of refraction and light slows down. The process of light slowing down bends the angle at which the direct ray of light travels, so the MORE light slows down the MORE it bends, now say you have a drop of water suspended in a vacuum above your head, white light(which is composed of all frequencies of visible light) hits this clear drop of water and is slowed down and bends, but the different frequencies of light that compose the white light bend different amounts (this amount is small but visible from a distance) the lower frequency light is less affected by the drop of water as it has a longer wavelength and oscillates a lesser amount of times through the distance of the water drop, the higher frequency light oscillates many times through the same water drop and is slowed down more because of it, so it bends more. This process is called diffraction and causes the spectrum of colors in white light to diffract when sent through matter. The blue light(higher frequency) is bent more and the red light is bend less and through this distance of bending is a gradient of light that we call a rainbow.
So, the speed of light is the same for all frequencies in a vacuum BUT when you send light through matter is slows down a certain amount, red light (lower frequency) travels faster than blue light (higher frequency).
The lower frequencies are affected less by traveling through matter, this is why infrared light is used in fiber optics as opposed to ultraviolet or visible light.
Using the Acronym "ROYGBIV", (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) Those are the colours of the spectrum from lowest frequency to highest frequency, so red light travels faster than all the colours that have a higher frequency than it.
So to sum up....
Red is proven to be fastest...
neilsfishing said:
only in water 
Read it all again... (The water is purely part of the explanation process)I think you have selective deafness, (i.e. hearing what you want to hear)
It's all there in print, therefore game over on the what colour is fastest arguments... Sorry...
My work here is done...
Edited by RT/10Dave on Tuesday 19th February 11:11
RT/10Dave said:
Well... I've said it before...
Red, Proven to be fastest with the assistance of science
Light travels the same speed through a vacuum at all wavelengths, but when we send the light through something other than a vacuum, like glass we see that light bends/slows, this is seen through snells law below
n1*sin(theta1) = n2*sin(theta2)
The parts of the equation n1 & n2 are called the index of refraction, this is the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum divided by the speed of light in that substance, so an index of refraction of 1 means that you are in a vacuum, because the speed of light travels the same speed it would in a vacuum. But if you send light through water, water has an index of refraction and light slows down. The process of light slowing down bends the angle at which the direct ray of light travels, so the MORE light slows down the MORE it bends, now say you have a drop of water suspended in a vacuum above your head, white light(which is composed of all frequencies of visible light) hits this clear drop of water and is slowed down and bends, but the different frequencies of light that compose the white light bend different amounts (this amount is small but visible from a distance) the lower frequency light is less affected by the drop of water as it has a longer wavelength and oscillates a lesser amount of times through the distance of the water drop, the higher frequency light oscillates many times through the same water drop and is slowed down more because of it, so it bends more. This process is called diffraction and causes the spectrum of colors in white light to diffract when sent through matter. The blue light(higher frequency) is bent more and the red light is bend less and through this distance of bending is a gradient of light that we call a rainbow.
So, the speed of light is the same for all frequencies in a vacuum BUT when you send light through matter is slows down a certain amount, red light (lower frequency) travels faster than blue light (higher frequency).
The lower frequencies are affected less by traveling through matter, this is why infrared light is used in fiber optics as opposed to ultraviolet or visible light.
Using the Acronym "ROYGBIV", (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) Those are the colours of the spectrum from lowest frequency to highest frequency, so red light travels faster than all the colours that have a higher frequency than it.
So to sum up....
Red is proven to be fastest...
Shut upRed, Proven to be fastest with the assistance of science
Light travels the same speed through a vacuum at all wavelengths, but when we send the light through something other than a vacuum, like glass we see that light bends/slows, this is seen through snells law below
n1*sin(theta1) = n2*sin(theta2)
The parts of the equation n1 & n2 are called the index of refraction, this is the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum divided by the speed of light in that substance, so an index of refraction of 1 means that you are in a vacuum, because the speed of light travels the same speed it would in a vacuum. But if you send light through water, water has an index of refraction and light slows down. The process of light slowing down bends the angle at which the direct ray of light travels, so the MORE light slows down the MORE it bends, now say you have a drop of water suspended in a vacuum above your head, white light(which is composed of all frequencies of visible light) hits this clear drop of water and is slowed down and bends, but the different frequencies of light that compose the white light bend different amounts (this amount is small but visible from a distance) the lower frequency light is less affected by the drop of water as it has a longer wavelength and oscillates a lesser amount of times through the distance of the water drop, the higher frequency light oscillates many times through the same water drop and is slowed down more because of it, so it bends more. This process is called diffraction and causes the spectrum of colors in white light to diffract when sent through matter. The blue light(higher frequency) is bent more and the red light is bend less and through this distance of bending is a gradient of light that we call a rainbow.
So, the speed of light is the same for all frequencies in a vacuum BUT when you send light through matter is slows down a certain amount, red light (lower frequency) travels faster than blue light (higher frequency).
The lower frequencies are affected less by traveling through matter, this is why infrared light is used in fiber optics as opposed to ultraviolet or visible light.
Using the Acronym "ROYGBIV", (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) Those are the colours of the spectrum from lowest frequency to highest frequency, so red light travels faster than all the colours that have a higher frequency than it.
So to sum up....
Red is proven to be fastest...
Unfortunately, due to the fact that Grey is not a colour of the spectrum, and is made up of a collection of colours, although Red will be one of those colours and therefore part of the colour you are seeing, unfortunately all the slower colours will be holding it back... Best bet is a respray... I'll get you the paint code from home...
Can't understand it Dave 
Once again you provide all the science
behind the fact that red is faster and people try to 
against the facts provided.
When you combine science with legend, ie the Viper Wizard himself says that
"red is faster" I cannot see why we continue to have 
on this forum.
Once again you provide all the science
behind the fact that red is faster and people try to against the facts provided.When you combine science with legend, ie the Viper Wizard himself says that
"red is faster" I cannot see why we continue to have on this forum. Red light is faster than blue light in dense medium, I'll give you that, but when a red viper and a blue viper leave the line at the same time and appear to accelerate at the same rate with RT10/DAVES science it actually proves that the blue viper is in fact faster as its light will take longer to reach the observer. for it to appear the same as the red it must in fact be much closer and therefore faster.
Bring back rus, he kept it lively around here, without him we have to go back to arguing about colour
Bring back rus, he kept it lively around here, without him we have to go back to arguing about colour
You're right! That picture you just knocked up on photoshop disproves everything... 
They only paint stealth planes black or grey in an attempt to help make them look boring, and therefore try and make them less interesting to look at...
Lets face it, you go grey as you get older, as you get older you slow down, your joints aren't what they were, and things don't work as quickly as you'd like... Grey, is by nature a slow colour...
They only paint stealth planes black or grey in an attempt to help make them look boring, and therefore try and make them less interesting to look at...
Lets face it, you go grey as you get older, as you get older you slow down, your joints aren't what they were, and things don't work as quickly as you'd like... Grey, is by nature a slow colour...
Edited by RT/10Dave on Tuesday 19th February 12:04
3 points
1 the dyno day apart from a sc car i think honours went black ,then something elce then steel gray
2 wot colour are Bus's MMmmmmmmm RED!!!!!!
3 if your going red and not gray you are either embarrassed with wot you drive or you better get to your doctors quick or it will end up in the passanger foot well
1 the dyno day apart from a sc car i think honours went black ,then something elce then steel gray
2 wot colour are Bus's MMmmmmmmm RED!!!!!!
3 if your going red and not gray you are either embarrassed with wot you drive or you better get to your doctors quick or it will end up in the passanger foot well
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