Sorry ladies! 'The colour pink doesn't exist'

 London, Mar 9 - Pink, the colour of universal love, doesn't exist -- it's just a pigment of our imagination, a leading scientist has claimed.

 Pink is, in fact, a combination of red and violet, two colours, which -- if one looks at a rainbow -- are on the opposite sides of the spectrum, according to Robert Krulwich, the presenter of a scientific radio show called Radiolab.

 As colour is a construct of people's eyes and brains, when one looks at a pink object one is not actually seeing pink wavelengths of light. He says it only appears pink as certain wavelengths of light are reflected while others are absorbed, quenched, by the pigments, the 'Daily Mail' said.

 So, pink is a reflective colour, not a transmissive colour -- one can see it because the brain translates light bouncing off objects, says Krulwich who describes it as a Òmade-up colourÓ.
 However, Jill Morton, professor at the University of Hawaii, disagrees.

 She told 'popsci.com': ÒOf course pink is a colour. But with that said, pink is indeed not part of the light spectrum.
It's an extra-spectral colour, and it has to be mixed to generate it.

 ÒIf you take a tube of red paint and add white to it, you'll get pink. If you work with watercolours, take red paint and add a lot of water to it and put it on watercolour paper, that would be pink.

 ÒTechnically it's right that you can't generate pink in the rainbow colours. But you can mix other colours in light to get pink. This is about interpreting the visual world.