When you look at a Red Apple, does that mean the apple is red?

Question

In other words is the TRUE color really red? I have heard that color is the light not absorbed by the object, therefore the color we see is the refracted/reflected light waves..and so on... so I guess the question is: What color is a RED APPLE?

Answer 1

This is just a semantics question. When we say something is red, that means that it either emits red light (glowing) or else that it preferentially absorbs the non-red frequencies of light (this is generally the case). Don't get hung up over this. If something looks red, it is red. That's all there is to it.

Answer 2

Yes, the TRUE color of your apple is red. Unless it's a Granny Smith apple, in which case the TRUE color would be green. Or a Golden Delicious, which would be yellow.
The TRUE color of anything is merely represented by the particular wavelength of light that it reflects back to your eyes - how you perceive this color is another subject all together.

Answer 3

basically white light is a spectrum made up of other colours, becuase the apple doesn't generate its own red light then it must reflect red light, but no other light, or everything would be red so either the other frequencys (colours) of light disperse and bounce of it or they are absorbed, it is genrally exepted that they are absorbed.

Answer 4

yes they don't put die on it that would be real gross it comes from seedes that make the apple red and the soil most of all the water