Blue is newer than you think perhaps.
http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2015/may/licensing-agreement-reached-brilliant-new-blue-pigment-discovered-happy-accident
Now is this more interesting because of its function or the language about it?
Did the physical properties change our perception about it or the language about it?
Terry
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Dear Ken,
Thank you for the wonderful explanation and further clarification of what I meant. you seem to have hit the spot.
Communication cannot change the physical properties of steel or the size of our galaxy, but it can change our perception of it.
Apparently blue is the youngest color in human civilization:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2976405/Could-ancestors-blue-Ancient-civilisations-didn-t-perceive-colour-didn-t-word-say-scientists.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc3vhiTl04I
Enjoy,
Yoád David Luxembourg
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