why is the colour of darkness, a situation where there is no light, black? Why isn't darkness orange or white or any other colour except black? why when there is no light, it looks black.
2006-09-04 02:57:42 · 14 answers · asked by Y L 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Light and color are part of each other. Without light, there is no color. Black is the absence of light and therefore the absence of color.
You can have infra-red (you can't see - but you feel in the form of heat) red light, yellow light, green light, violet light and ultra violet light (which you can't see but it gives you a tan and can dammage your eyes)... Mixing all the visible colors of light gives you white light.
However, when you paint a picture, the oposite is true... You mix ALL the primary colors of paint together to get black.
2006-09-04 03:06:47 · answer #1 · answered by Moose 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Colour is synonymous with light. They are the same thing.
Absence of light is absence of colour. When we perceive what we call "black", it is an absence of lightwaves falling on our retina. Black objects absorb light, reflecting none (or very little, which is why we can see a light side and a shadow side to black objects).
Orange is a waveform, or a combination of red and yellow waves, and white is the combination of all visible light waves.
Nice question!
2006-09-04 10:07:28 · answer #2 · answered by Rynbow 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Darkness may be defined as the absence of visible light. Visible light, in this case, is typically thought of as the spectrum between red and violet that is detected by the rods and cones in the human eye. However, if the intensity of visible light photons is below detectability, darkness may be said to exist.
Note this definition does not cover radio waves, infrared, ultraviolet, and other electromagnetic spectrum classifications. Humans are just not designed to pick up these wavelengths through optical sensors.
2006-09-08 22:26:15 · answer #3 · answered by eriurana 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's looks black bec. if it looks orange/yellow or whatever colors except black then you can still see something around and it seems that the light doesn't off if the colour not turning into black.
2006-09-11 12:19:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Colours are impressions that are created inside your brain based upon a stimulus in the retina of your eye. The absense of any stimulus is translated into the colour "black". You can't even be sure, that the impression of black that you have is equal to the impression of black that another person will receive. To me that explains, why the people have different favourite colours.
2006-09-09 03:43:21 · answer #5 · answered by Zarathustra 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because all the other color requires light to be seen, they are made up of lights from the different spectrum, however, darkness is nothingness and since black is not produced by light on a spectrum, darkness is black.
2006-09-04 11:12:27 · answer #6 · answered by Man 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This may be more of a philosophical question than a scientific question.
The most helpful book I know on this topic is
"Remarks on Colour" by L. Wittgenstein.
There have been numerous additional books on this topic by other modern philosophers.
2006-09-11 11:13:23 · answer #7 · answered by cosmo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because dark meanin no light indicates that there is no way that there is aloud to b any light colors or light in that space or color. so black bein a dark color indicates that there is no sign of light. at night its black meanin that there is meant to b no lights on at that time of day
there u go work on that.
2006-09-12 01:24:11 · answer #8 · answered by Emo_Blade 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
good question colors are formed by wavelengths from light, and darkness is an absense of light, therefore it is black, no wavlength forms black.
2006-09-04 11:59:39 · answer #9 · answered by Adam 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
due to the projection of pixels in the retina (eye projector) it produces a sleeping effect, same stuff u see when u close ure eyes
2006-09-04 10:05:55 · answer #10 · answered by warz 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋