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Re: Green flash

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Originally Posted by charlie_grr
well the light wasnt really reflected or projected anywhere, it was more like when you stare at one of those green and yellow USA flags and look onto white and its red white and bluie. my fisics buddy and i thought that since the light was flickering slow enough for us to really tell, the white light was coming in much longer intervals, so then when we turned our head quickly, our eyes were able to pick of some of the light that makes up white light, and since green light is the color that our eyes are most sensitive to, we saw a very fint and quick green flash. but i could be wrong
That may be true... If what you seen was like more of a blur... it could have been a power surge for some reason jolting the power of the light... causing your eyes to react with the excessive amounts of light produced by the bulb.

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