Without eyes, color would not exist, no?
2007-03-17 09:36:38 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Colour is a specific wavelength of light. It is not formed in the eye.
This is an adaptation of the old "If a tree falls..." question.
2007-03-17 09:39:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Color is merely a name we give to light of different visible wavelengths. It's somewhat subjective, as well: people don't all agree on where green ends and blue begins.
So, yes, color is indeed an illusion, but it's not created by our eyes. It's created by our brains.
I don't really see how this is relevant to R&S, though.
2007-03-17 09:48:04 · answer #2 · answered by ThePeter 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are perfectly correct. Visible light is commonly imagined to contain all the colors. Actually, it is electromagnetic radiation with a range of wavelengths from 425 nanometers to 800 nanometers. Waves of light with shorter wavelengths contain more energy than longer wavelengths. The various energies of optical radiation react with various chemicals in the cone cells of the retina to produce nervous signals which our brain interprets as color. The perception of color is an entirely subjective experience and "colors" do not exist in physical reality.
2007-03-17 09:51:29 · answer #3 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, color exists, whether you are looking at it or not. Colors are defined as light of distinct wavelengths, so even if you can't see in color, you can run the light through a spectrometer and find out what the wavelength, and thus the color, is.
650 nanometers = red
390 nanometers = blue/purple
In between is everything else.
2007-03-17 09:42:09 · answer #4 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course they exist they are the results of different wave lengths of light. Your eyes just happen to have the facility for separating the different wave lengths so you can distinguish color. For a person blind from birth color could not exist for him because he would not even be able to think in color.
2007-03-17 09:42:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Colors exist, and different colors have different speeds or wavelengths. This plays an important role in the way we percieve color. Look at the link below for more information on this subject.
2007-03-17 14:32:49 · answer #6 · answered by sugarpacketchad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it wouldn't, since color is a human concept. Our eyes read different light wave frequencies as color. The waves exist, color, at least in the real, does not.
2007-03-17 09:40:34 · answer #7 · answered by Tukiki 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The wave lengths reflected by an object would remain the same but in the absence of the eyes and the neurobiology involved in visual accuity would not be perceived as color.
2007-03-17 09:40:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rods and cones.
Response to the color reflected from an object.
The prism shows us that there are colors in white light.
Responses in the eye to 700 Angstrom approaching black.
There are many more colors that the human eye can not respond to.
2007-03-17 09:43:21 · answer #9 · answered by chris p 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would be like inventing a new sense that senses something we are not aware of??
Eyes do exist-there for colors that already exist can be seen.
No illusions in the equasion :-)
2007-03-17 09:41:33 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The perception of color is the brain's reaction to the eye's reaction to electromagnetic radiation coming from the Sun or any other light source.
2007-03-17 09:43:23 · answer #11 · answered by Wrath Warbone 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋