【英语时差8,16】红外线下的脸庞看起来不赖

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The traditional answer to this question was that most of the sun’s radiation is visible light, so our eyes evolved to see those wavelengths¹. However, the sun also gives off a whole lot of infrared² radiation. What would it be like if our eyes evolved to see infrared light? If we could see infrared, the sky would appear dark, and grass and trees very bright. Our veins³ would shine darkly through our skin, and warm blooded creatures would be very easy to spot. That would be a great advantage not only for predators⁴ on the prowl, but also escaping prey⁵. No one knows for sure why animals and plants on earth evolved to perceive visible light, rather than infrared. One theory is that maybe there’s no biochemical reaction that would allow us to translate infrared light into a visual image we can perceive, as we do with visible light. Or, maybe evolution just hasn’t found it yet.