Is there color is a lightless area?

Question

I asked a question earlier on how light was made. The best answer I got was that objects obsorb a color of light and filter it out a different color. So if color needs light, is it possible that in an area with absolutly no light what so ever (like a cave or something else) objects physically lose their color? Or is it impossible to be in an area with absolutly no light?

Answer 1

This is the whole quantum uncertainty principle - if there is no light then we do not know the colour, but as soon as we introduce light then the colour is known, but until that point there are multiple possible states the colour of the object could be in...

Answer 2

Look at it this way, color is just a trait of the object. Color is that part of the light spectrum that is reflected to the observer. White is the reflection of all the visible spectrum and black occurs when an object absorbs the entire spectrum and reflects none of it. Therefore, black is not a color, but rather, the lack thereof. To answer the other part of your question, if there is no light, no part of the spectrum is being reflected, therefore, no color is present. However, the characteristics that cause the visible color are there on the object. And yes, you can be somewhere where there is absolutely no light, and you would see no color, but the traits which cause the color are still there.

Answer 3

If you were in an area with absolutely no light, you wouldn't be able to see anyways, so really what difference would it make? But no, light is made of colour. Its the whole grade 3 prism thing again, light is made of the colours of the rainbow, all twisted together, until it is seperated by something that can slow light down, Eg. Glass. Nothing can physically lose its colour unless it is from a chemical process, or it no longer creates enough energy to sustain its colourant. (Eg, wood)

Answer 4

No, there is no color in a lightless area. Light is made when certain molecules are super-excited. This usually results in a great amount of heat as well.

Answer 5

if light comes from color, and the place is lightless, then I'd say no, there is no color in lightless areas. But then, I get migraine headaches, causing me to see MANY colors in lightless areas. So you be the judge...

Answer 6

Sort of. It's like the difference between potential and kinetic energy. It has the potential to have color, but if there's no light, that color cannot be seen.

So, in a completely light-less space, color cannot be seen.

Answer 7

object is colorfull only wen it reflects or emits light.if an object doesnt get any light it wont emit any.it means tht u cant see tht object.wat defines the color of the object is the beam of wavelenghts it emits in form of light.if an object doesnt get any light it doesnt mean tht the object is colorless but it simply means tht u cant see the object.wen light wld fall on the object the object then again wld emit light of various wavelengths which wld give u the sensation of the color of the object

Answer 8

I have been in a cave so deep that we had to have air breathing equiment.the darkness became so dark that the lights actually would not luminate the wall that was within arms length.Total darkness is the purest form of black.color being the reflection of light.that is why dark is black because no light can escape.

Answer 9

this is like asking about a tree falling in the woods and nobody to hear it.

No light means no color can be seen.
But the object remains the same, and will continue to look the same color if you bring in the light.

Answer 10

no color is light reflection off of a colored object