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This is the color of infinite hotness.
This is the color something gets in the limit where its temperature approaches infinity. Of course you’d instantly be fried by gamma rays of arbitrarily high frequency, but this would be its spectrum in the visible range.
This is also the color of a typical neutron star. They’re so hot they look the same!
It’s also the color of the very early Universe!
This was worked out by David Madore, and you can find the details at my blog article, including a discussion of whether this is exactly the right color:
johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/the-color-of-infinite-temperature
Luckily, the alternative someone suggested is so close I can't tell the difference.
In unicode this color is approximately #98b5ff.
Perhaps we should call it "baby blue" - for the early universe.
https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/114/116/909/269/055/416/original/173f041b52b6bbe1.webp
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Pleasant Fowl I feel like artists have already settled on this kind of hue for neutron stars so it's interesting to see the agreement.
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“The color he got is sRGB(148,177,255). And according to the experts who sip latte all day and make up names for colors, this color is called ‘Perano’.”
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It's a trap, John!
The demonstration below does not use the same sRGB coordinates as Perano, but close enough to make the point that, properly speaking, "colour" (correctly spelled with a "u" 🤣) is most definitely a perceptual construct, not a physical one.
It is, of course, a... show more
Pleasant Fowl nice hot take! 
Pleasant Fowl, and I thought I'm having a poor reception and the image is not loading.
Pleasant Fowl I like to imagine a sick drum beat dropping after the first sentence of that post. Maybe throw some lofi vinyl crackling over the whole thing.
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