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[misko27]

wasn't that some sort of anti-creationist argument?

I'd love to see the logic behind that.

[Graknorke]

wasn't that some sort of anti-creationist argument?

I'd love to see the logic behind that.

I meant the invisible pink unicorn.

Not an argument. Just a bit of good humour between followers of invisible deities who interact with us in ways indistinguishable from chance.

[kaijyuu]

wasn't that some sort of anti-creationist argument?

The Invisible Pink Unicorn is an argument against the more illogical religions who espouse contradictory things. A unicorn cannot be invisible and pink at the same time, yet you hear of God having mutually exclusive qualities and such (biggest one would be the problem of evil).

[Flying Dice]

What's to stop an invisible unicorn from also being pink? After all, if it was not in the state of invisibility, it would have to have some sort of color (or lack thereof), no? It's just that it is impossible for an invisible unicorn to ever not be invisible, by its very definition. Obviously the Invisible Pink Unicorn has the potential to be pink but it is against the IPU's nature to ever not be invisible.

 

[Aklyon]

Weeeee, IPU argument. These are fun to hear.

[The Darkling Wolf]

Transparent is a color, and transparency is just another form of invisibility.

See?
So saying it's both invisible and pink is silly.

[Flying Dice]

Transparent is a color, and transparency is just another form of invisibility.

See?
So saying it's both invisible and pink is silly.

What's the wavelength of transparent? Where on an artist's palette will you see transparent paint?

Transparency is the physical property of allowing light to pass through an object without scattering. By the same token, translucency is the [...] to partially pass through an object with some scattering, and opacity is [...] of not allowing light to pass through an object. Hence things like colored plastic and stained glass; both are translucent. A unicorn could be pink, but if it was also transparent the color would be irrelevant as all light would pass through it without being affected.

[pisskop]

But then it wouldn't absorb the lightwaves that make it pink!

edit:absorb.  derp.  Flying Dice is right.  I totally meant reflect.

[The Darkling Wolf]

The wavelength is ∞ and their transparent paint is dependent on the colour of their canvas.

[Frumple]

What... what about other forms of radiation besides light? Maybe it has the same, I'unno, X-ray properties as pink and reality is such that only pink things have that property, thus it is pink and translucent to light?

[Darvi]

The unicorn's obviously infrared. Duh.

[Flying Dice]

But then it wouldn't absorb the lightwaves that make it pink!

The wavelengths of light which cause the illusion of color are the ones which are reflected. But the IPU still possesses the physical composition such that if it ever were visible, it would appear to be pink. Properly speaking, it would be termed the 'Invisible Unicorn Which Appears to be Pink to Human Perception When Struck By Light', but that's a bit of a mouthful.

[Aklyon]

So the Invisible Unicorn Which Appears to be Pink to Human Perception When Struck By Light is the animal version of The Knights Who Until Recently Said Ni?

[Flying Dice]

So the Invisible Unicorn Which Appears to be Pink to Human Perception When Struck By Light is the animal version of The Knights Who Until Recently Said Ni?

Not quite. They would need to be the Knights Who Have Always Had and Always Will Have the Ability to Say Ni, But Who Will Never Say Ni Because it is Against Their Essential Natures.

[Frumple]

[Idle musing]Being fair, though, I think the rational actor (or at least rational observer) would necessarily find that the pinkness (or lack thereof) of the Invisible Unicorn is actually irrelevant. If you don't have a measure of pinkness (i.e. the object is invisible and its color cannot be observed by your methods of observation), then the pinkness, insofar as the burden of consideration re: the actor is concerned, functionally does not exist. You can't say or see anything about it, it has no way of impacting your decision making, etc., so forth, so on.

The appropriate thing to do is disregard the light wavelength and either start molesting the unicorn to figure out what shape it is or pull out an infra-red scope or something. Appeals to the pinkness are irrelevant until you have a means to identify the pinkness. That doesn't necessarily mean you don't have other (perfectly acceptable means of justification) ways of identifying the unicorn.[/idle musing]

Point being that appeals to justification beyond light wavelength as to the nature of the unicorn is preferable to only justification by nature of light wavelength, and if the rational actor lacks the latter then they must turn to the former and, should there be no former, note they have no justification and find something more important than unicorn ogling to do with their time.