Do you think it is possible that colors exist that have just never been seen before?

Question

I think that it might be possible.

Answer 1

Just look at your computer. Go to your monitor section and choose the adapter, on some choices there are literally TRILLIONS of color combinations. I don't know about you, but if I've seen trillions of colors, I guess I haven't recogizned them : ) So, yes, most of us run on computers on 16.5 million colors, however, the next level up is the one I was speaking of, and seriously, I've never seen the 16.5 million either. But, I know its there!

PS Did you know that with HDTV (high density) that you use the same part of the brain that you use when you watch "live" action as if you were there, "in person?" Because your brain can not tell the difference between High Definition and Life. It can and does tell the difference with a regular television though. This was in a recent magazine.

Answer 2

In a sense, we already know it's true. Color vision is simply how we detect certain energy waves that are reflected from various objects. So, if you see a red glove, all light energy within our range of vision is absorbed by the glove except for part of the red spectrum which is reflected back to your eyes and detected by the image being projected onto your retina. We know there are many energy levels beyond our visual field such as infra-red and ultra-violet. Some animals are actually able to see in these ranges even though we cannot. Likewise, there are some colors we detect that other species cannot (dogs, for example mostly see violets and yellows).

Answer 3

Absolutely. Colors have been defined or described by the human eye first. All color machines were designed with that bias. If yellow and blue make green then why are there infinite shades of black? Infinite shades of every basic color. Oop's. In that argument, i guess every color has been seen. On the other hand, maybe human eyes have'nt developed enough to see beyond the basic colors.

Answer 4

Yes and no. All "color" is is a position on the light spectrum. The human eye is capable of seeing a certain part of that spectrum. It's called the "visible" spectrum.

Outside of it, there are other "colors". For instance, infra-red, which is used to detect heat emissions. It's really just another watching point, but in a spectrum we're not capable of seeing in. There's really no reason (theoretically) we might not have receptors capable of seeing infrared; we just don't.

So, yes, there are "colors" you haven't seen before; you're just not equipped to see them.

Answer 5

In terminology of visual communications, colour is visible part of EM radiation, the spectrum. It is percepted by human eye and defined as such in a border of physical human preferences. Everything beyond that spectrum and which is the same type of wave radiation could not be called colour since we have no more 'organs' to feel that input in a same manner as we perceive colour.

Answer 6

yes it is definatly possible as humans we cansee a wide variety of colours and shades how ever it is impossible to see ultra violet colors as the human eye can not process the high frequency in which the color travels

Answer 7

Of course; There os a VAST spectrum of colors all the way from infra red to ultraviolet; and we can on;y see a timy fraction of that spectrum.

Answer 8

Yes, of course. Color is just wavelength. The human perception is very limited in terms of color.

Answer 9

sure it could be possible. The human eye can prob only see so many. maybe animals see different colors than us.
Think of this......It may be possible.....that each person sees each color differently.....like I see red........you may see what I call blue.....but we have been taught since birth the name of each color............so our color names are still the same...but it could look different to each of us.

Answer 10

I LOVE THAT QUESTION!!!!!! i used to think about that all the time when i was small completely forgot about it until i saw your question:) i defo think that there are different colours that we havent seen before,,,,,,, i think that theyb b cool kinda metalic wavy colours really bright and shiny lol!!!!