(9) The Home Hobbyist's Answer to E=mc²

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I began to apprehend a way to use the concept of relativistic sets of primaries when I re-examined the premises of my hypothetical additive admixtures, and worked out a kind of "color arithmetic" in the process.

An example of how (at least in my judgment) the "arithmetic" worked:

Say a light source emits a frequency that, to my eye, appears medium blue.  By adding a small amount of white light, I can produce a "lighter" blue.  According to the accepted thinking of contemporary physicists, I could create this white light from an equal mixture of red, blue, and green.  This statement can be reduced to a formula:

        B + (R+B+G) = B'

            Where
                    B=blue
                    R=red
                    G=green
                    B' = lighter blue.

The notion of adding or subtracting units of white to produce value "register shifts" was pleasant to consider.  It opened up the possibility of perceiving colors as spiraling upward like musical notes within octaves, with the same basic "note" (i.e., hue) occurring in successively "higher" ("lighter") "octaves" (levels of light-to-dark value).

It also had a satisfying congruence with other models from nature, like the periodic table of the elements.

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