If Blue Was Green

What a weird question is that? How can blue be green? “Green” is “Green” and “Blue” is “Blue”. That’s how it is supposed to be and that’s how it is.

So let’s see if blue can be green. We'll start by defining what is blue and what is green. As a common man I would say that they are both colors. As a science student I would say they are wavelengths which are part of the visible spectrum and each of them produces a different sensation on reaching your eye. That’s why a science student would say blue is blue because it has a particular wavelength and so is the case with green.

Coming back to the question of how can blue be green. Suppose there was a country which did not follow the normal notations that we follow and they called the part of the spectrum we call blue as green. Now for them blue will produce essentially the same sensation as produced by green for us. Now what will happen is, that when I call a color green, a citizen of that country would call it blue. So, Green becomes Blue. For the people of this fictitious land, the sky would be green and grass would be blue, but both would appear as they appears to us. Basically what I mean to convey is that, blue and green are only names and not things that are actually there.

How does it matter if I call blue as green or green as blue? It’s only a thing for recognition and that recognition doesn’t change by changing names.

So I would rather put it like this:
I would interchange the names of colors too i.e. lets change the definitions of blue and green. So that the sky remains blue and grass remains green. Easy isn’t it?

With the help of my HR Manager I circulated this question in my office and here are some of the answers I got.

1. We will get Blue Label (Rs.12000) at the cost of Green label (Rs.400)
2. If ‘Blue was green’, then blue will look like this -> Blue Or
If ‘Blue was green’, then now ‘Blue is Blue’ only (since was is a past tense) Or
If ‘Blue was green’’ then ‘Green will be Blue’...
3. Green card in US will be blue card. Then “Green” would have been more attractive than “Blue”
4. Blue can be green too. It's called Turquoise
5. If Blue was Green Environmentalists would preen!
6. If blue was green, and green was still green, all the cows and buffalos would be confused ... they would want to eat the sky and this would lead to shortage of milk as the poor creatures would be upset.

New ideas are welcome.......