SCIENCE EXPERIMENT: WEAR RED & GREEN DURING THE ECLIPSE

Here’s a little science experiment you can do during the solar eclipse this coming Monday. If you wear read and green you can experience the Purkinje Effect. During a solar eclipse’s intermediate phase, which is about four to five minutes before totality, you’ll be in twilight. During this phase, things will appear less colorful. Greens will actually appear brighter and reds will get darker. If you want to know why this happens: Light passes through what are called rods and cones in your eyes. Rods are responsible for vision in low light and cones are responsible for vision in brighter light. Cones aren’t sensitive enough to pick up dim light, so those colors fade. But the rods pick up blue-green colors under low light.
* Finally, an experiment lamer than a baking soda volcano.
* Red and green? We need to move the eclipse to Christmas.
* ♫♪ “When the light level dips in a solar eclipse / That’s Purkinje!” ♪♪
* ♪♫ “When the red that you’ve seen is less brighter than green / That’s Purkinje…” ♫♫
* Purkinje is delicious lightly breaded and fried with onions.