Scientist Says Pink Is A Made Up Color

Pink is a girly color. Now there is a scientist who is saying that not only is it girly - but it isn't even a real color! Here is the logic -

No single wavelength of light appears pink. Pink requires a mixture of red and purple light—colors from opposite ends of the visible spectrum. Easy enough to do, and no seeming threat to pink’s ontological status. (Although this property does imply that the laws of the universe have conspired against pink lasers.)

The trouble begins when Krulwich imagines the visible spectrum curling up into a circle, with pink the missing slice between red and purple. “Pink happens when the red and violet sides get together, but they don’t get together—which makes pink an act of wishful thinking, or, to put it bluntly—pink is a made up color.

via - Scientific American

So if you just dyed your hair pink, or painted your fingernails...that didn't really happen? I see what he is going for - but I have to say that pink is still a color...just like black. What do you think about this craziness?