Why can we see Colors? | #aumsum #kids #education #science

AumSum was walking through a vibrant market filled with bright fruits, colorful clothes, and glowing lights. Everywhere he looked, he saw reds, blues, greens, and yellows shining around him. Amazed, he wondered - Why can we see Colors?. Determined to find out, AumSum shrank and entered his own eye. He landed on the curved, transparent dome at the front called the cornea. Light from the world outside entered through it and passed through the lens, which focused the light like a tiny magnifying glass. AumSum rode the beam of light as it traveled to the very back of the eye, he reached a soft layer called the retina, filled with millions of tiny cells. As AumSum walked across it, he noticed two kinds of cells - rods and cones. The rods were tall, slender cells that helped the eye see in dim light but didn’t show color. Whereas the cones responded to bright light and allowed the eye to detect colors. AumSum discovered that there were three types of cones. One type responded best to red light, another to green light, and the third to blue light. These were the primary colors of light. AumSum realized that the brain combined the signals from all three types to create the full rainbow of colors he saw every day. Smiling proudly, AumSum now understood the mystery.