i can never get it straight... and i dont know what category to put it in so dont get mad at me
2006-08-20 12:00:02 · 11 answers · asked by vera lynn 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Turn off the lights at night and what do you see?
2006-08-20 12:05:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm.
Black contains all the colors... truly the rainbow color.
Black absorbs the human 'visible' spectrum of energies.
White would be the perfect reflector of those same energies.
Which is why white vehicles are cooler although black is a cooler color! Both hard to keep clean though.
Of course neither blalk or white ARE colors...
You humans are still trying to decide if light is a wave or ray with particles or just energy or both... so in THAT 'light' the above makes sense... presence of ALL colors but is not even a color.
Come to thiink of it aren't you still arguing on how to spell colour?
No wonder you kill each other based on color or colour... it is the spelling yes?
2006-08-24 12:41:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
White has every colour of light, black is the absence of light. Shadows tend to be black, because you're blocking light; you can see whatever colour you want to in a room with a plain white light globe, as opposed to a coloured globe. When an object is coloured, that means it's reflecting the colour that you see, but absorbing every other colour possible, hence you need a white light to see every colour, as it's already shining every possible colour to start off with.
2006-08-20 19:08:44 · answer #3 · answered by woggish_candy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Black is the absence of light
White is the presence of light
Think of it this way.. Take a prism and shine a regular flashlight through it. What do you see? a rainbow with all the colors of light. (that we can see anyway)
2006-08-20 21:14:15 · answer #4 · answered by J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what you see is the interaction of light with the retina in your eyes and their associated nerve pathways into your brain,
To see an object you need three things:
1. A source of light
2 somthing to relfect the light off of and absorb some of the light ; hence color
3. An eye to see it
Therefore no light no sight. Your brain calls that black.
Shut your eyes and ignore your dreams. What color do you see?
2006-08-20 19:24:52 · answer #5 · answered by walter_b_marvin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really. The things that we say 'emit light' don't actually 'emit' anything at all. That's just a convenient fiction that lets all of our mathematics work nicely.
What actually happens is that lights (and 'light sources' in general) actually suck up darkness âº
Doug
2006-08-20 19:33:37 · answer #6 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
black the absence of any light
white is all frequencies of light together.
2006-08-20 19:05:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that black is the presence of all colors, while white is the absence of color.
2006-08-20 19:06:41 · answer #8 · answered by theprincesskgb 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
black is the reflection of all wavelengths of light while white is the absorption of all wavelengths of light
2006-08-20 19:22:11 · answer #9 · answered by when's my next vacation??? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a magnifying glass and look closely at your computer screen. You will figure it out.
2006-08-20 19:08:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋