Philosophy Wire: Colour where there is no colour… A cosmos where there is no cosmos…

Engineers have found that under the right conditions, ordinary clear water droplets on a transparent surface can produce brilliant colors, without the addition of inks or dyes. By tuning size, illumination angle, and curvature, MIT engineers can produce brilliant colors, in patterns they can predict, in otherwise transparent droplets. [1] Under the right angle, everything changes. Look at a mountain from the sky and it will look like a tiny dot. Look at a small chair from up-close and it will look like a mountain. A colored cosmos. A cosmos in black and white. At the end, it makes no difference. Because the cosmos is nothing. Until you start looking at it. Look at those beautiful colors. They are not there. And yet, here you are. Admiring them. Move a little and they will go away. Breath and you will lose sight of them. So beautiful. Look. They are gone… But cry not my child. For the colors will come again, through the tears of your eyes… You will not be able to see them ever again. But you will know they were there because one you had… What beautiful colors!, cries out the blind man by the alley. And for the first time in your life, you can see he is right…

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