Why is color theory still taught as absorption/reflection when we've

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04-09-2008, 08:09 AM

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Why is color theory still taught as absorption/reflection when we've

known better since the 1920s? Quantum mechanics, while conceptually much more complicated, does offer some accessible conceptual ways to see this process. But even if it IS complicated, teaching something we know to be blatantly wrong seems....well, a bit silly. Photons do NOT "bounce" off of electron shells when they are the 'right' color! Why is it still taught in the old way?

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