It would be new colors. Visible light is a specific range. The chemicals in your cones react to visible light differently than other wavelengths. It's not that radio waves aren't hitting your retinas, it's that your don't have the special goo to do anything with them.
If you had the special goo on top of the goo you already have, it would give a different signal to your brain than visible light. In order for the stretching scenario to occur, your goo would react to all forms of EM radiation but, for some reason, the signals are the exact same as visible light.
Would people with synesthesia have a chance at "seeing" waves outside average range? I know that some or all of them speak of "hearing color" or "seeing sound."
Yeah evidently the lenses filter those wavelengths out for our own protection, and supposedly some of it is perceptible to a degree for people who had the lenses removed. I remember reading somewhere that supposedly navies would use them as spotters, but I don't know how true that is, and it's a little difficult to search.
People should also look up tetrachromia. Tetrachromats are people who [seem to] have an extra fourth type of cone that supposedly enriches the distinction between certain hues
I don't mean adding pigments surgically. I don't think it would work if you took a person and suddenly gave them the extra pigments required to see UV or whatever.
It would be new colors. Visible light is a specific range. The chemicals in your cones react to visible light differently than other wavelengths. It's not that radio waves aren't hitting your retinas, it's that your don't have the special goo to do anything with them.
If you had the special goo on top of the goo you already have, it would give a different signal to your brain than visible light. In order for the stretching scenario to occur, your goo would react to all forms of EM radiation but, for some reason, the signals are the exact same as visible light.
This requires more proof. If you were correct, wouldn't it be possible to induce someone to see a vast number of colors that "don't exist"?
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Quite interesting, for me:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Chimerical-color-demo.svg
Does show instead of the red, a bright pink with violet sprinkles, though.
The other two, do fit though. (To use: Look for 20-60 seconds onto the X of the left column, then switch to the middle column X)
Also a person which got more than three rods: https://johndasfundas.blogspot.com/2015/05/seeing-100-million-colors-100-times.html
Sadly they don't show the wave length in which it works.
Would people with synesthesia have a chance at "seeing" waves outside average range? I know that some or all of them speak of "hearing color" or "seeing sound."
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Yeah evidently the lenses filter those wavelengths out for our own protection, and supposedly some of it is perceptible to a degree for people who had the lenses removed. I remember reading somewhere that supposedly navies would use them as spotters, but I don't know how true that is, and it's a little difficult to search. People should also look up tetrachromia. Tetrachromats are people who [seem to] have an extra fourth type of cone that supposedly enriches the distinction between certain hues
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I've personally seen new colors when tripping on higher doses of mushrooms.
I don't mean adding pigments surgically. I don't think it would work if you took a person and suddenly gave them the extra pigments required to see UV or whatever.