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You’re not wrong. It appears to be a very garbled technical explanation. Mainly that organisms need to absorb low frequency/energy light while reflecting higher
by elcritch 2y ago
You’re not wrong. It appears to be a very garbled technical explanation. Mainly that organisms need to absorb low frequency/energy light while reflecting higher frequency/energy light. I’m guessing that chemically that’s harder to do.
- gnu8 2y agoI think this is closer to what was intended: Molecules that appear blue must absorb very small amounts of energy, while reflecting high-energy blue light. Since assembling the molecules that are capable of absorbing this energy is a complex process, the color blue is less common than other colors in the natural world.