Do you think the universe holds colors humans have never seen?

Question

Hard to imagine a brand new color.

Answer 1

the colors you have is the combination of Red, Blue and yellow. Black & White are not colors. In your computer you can try out all possible combitions.

So, it's not possile that humans in universe hold a color which we have not seen, but it may possible that human hold a color that we have never imagined ; i.e. we never imagined that human can hold this type pf color; like one answer that human can be green

Answer 2

Well, I have no specific belief or understanding of why it exists, as there isn't yet sufficient evidence to tell us. My hunch, though is that it is just like a 'big' virtual particle, of the type that spontaneously come into existence at the quantum level. At quantum scales, our normal understanding of physics breaks down and becomes very weird by comparison. Events are not deterministic but probabilistic. This means that no specific outcomes can be predicted, only their probability. It also means that matter can come into existence from nothing. All of this happens without any cause, as the probability nullifies causality. Perhaps a more familiar example is of radioactive decay - while we can work out the statistics (half life), we cannot predict when one particular atom will decay. This is not a problem with measurement, but that non-causation is its inherent nature, as described by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. This also demonstrates how the macroscopic world relates to the quantum one, effectively being an averaging of very many quantum events. One of the constraints (and clues) of uncaused matter forming is that all its properties must sum to zero, or within Heisenberg limits of zero. An example would be positive and negative particles forming together, so their sum is zero. Their time of existence will be limited too. Indeed a vacuum is a 'froth' of such particles appearing and annihilating continually, as evidenced by the Casimir effect. In simple terms, all matter is a 'separation' of nothingness - uncaused but following quantum rules. So what has this to do with the overall universe? Well, it increasingly looks likely that the sum of the universe's properties is zero. All the free energy is balanced by negative gravitational energy, totalling zero. Plus, we can trace the expanding universe back the way to a 'singularity', a point where classical physics breaks down. That means quantum physics takes over, so the universe within a Planck second of time=0 behaves as a quantum particle. If so, this means that the entire universe is just one big quantum event - a separation of nothingness into everything that we see today. It would be uncaused, just probabilistic, so needs no creator or even trigger. It would have 'just happened' in the same way that a radioactive atom would have decayed. This includes the very fundamental quantum properties and relationships that gives us 'Standard Model' particles, matter and forces. From these very basic components we can get atoms, photons, gravity, electromagnetism, and all the aspects of nature we are familiar with, leading to the universe as it is today. Now I do stress that is just a hypothesis - we don't yet have enough evidence to confirm it, but so far that seems the explanation that is most compatible with the evidence and understanding we do have. It's to gain more clues that we spend billions on particle accelerators, e.g. to hunt for the Higgs boson to explain mass, and to fill in other gaps. Quantum gravity will be a big one too. So it's likely a more fundamental question than asking why the universe began is asking why we have such quantum rules at all, but at present that's in the lap of theoreticians and beyond the frontier of measurement.

Answer 3

I am certain of it. The electromagnetic spectrum continues in both directions from the visible portion, toward the infrared at one end, and the ultraviolet at the other. Just because human vision is limited does not mean that other animals can't see those colors. In fact, it is known that some insects and birds can see ultraviolet light, and that many flowers have features which reflect strongly in that range. This is so that those insects and birds will be attracted to the flowers, thus pollinating them.

Answer 4

Of course - the universe has colors humans have never seen - LOTS of them.....

Colors are part of the electromagnetic spectrum. The ones we see with our physical eyes are in the hundreds of nano meters or centered around 1000Tera Hz. thereabouts between the infrared and ultraviolet.

Answer 5

there are colors that our visual system cannot see.
There are electromagnetic frequencies that our eyes cannot respond to. We see only a small section of that spectrum and our eyes and brain interpret that electromagnetic energy as light and colors.

colors are actually created by your visual system. Cells in the back of your eye are stimulated by wavelengths of light that hits those cells. Those cells will respond to a small limited spectrum of electromagnetic radiation and will not be able to see frequencies outside of that range. There are 3 types of cells.

Each type of cell responds best to a small range of frequencies. Each color or frequency of light stimulates these cells. But each cell reponds with different intensity to that specific wavelenght/frequency.

The cells then send impulses to your brain. The different patterns of impulses from your eye cells are interpreted by the brain as light and colors.

So we don't even really know if people see the same color ( the same frequency of light) the same way.

There are frequencies that other creatures will see and people don't. Insects see the higher frequencies that we perceive as ultraviolet and they see frequncies our eyes don't register.

Answer 6

Colours are essentially just "in our head", there's nothing essential about them. Humans have a finite spectrum that they can see, but they can also "see" outside the spectrum with the help of technology (eg. infra-red cameras). However there can't be a new colour we can perceive - once you've seen the full spectrum you've seen every possible colour that the human being can perceive. Of course, for other beings with different brains, perception could be very different so they could possibly see "new" colours - ones that we cannot perceive with our eyes...

Answer 7

the colors you see are the ones in the visible spectrum
they are divided into "roy g biv" which is an acronym for red , orange, yellow, green, blue , indigo, and violet

and u know from art class that mixing certain colors yields others

but unless there is a part of the spectrum which we have missed (unlikely) than we aren't gonna see any new colors

Answer 8

No. Since the range of human vision is limited, we have already seen all the colors we can see. It is remotely possible that a spectroscopic analysis of an as yet unobserved light source might reveal a new frequency ot two, but this is highly unlikely.

Answer 9

Any color is simply a perception of an elemental emission frequency received from a source of radiant energy. Our receptors (eyes) perceive a color when a radiated body reflects an elemental part or group of parts of the incoming energy. The range of frequencies emitted from an energy source depend on the specific elements being excited to energy levels sufficent to cause them to emit energy. The number of individual colors is infinite. Example- think of a resevoir of colorless perfectly clear water equal in volume to the entire pacific ocean. Then- think about dropping into that reservoir a single drop of red easter egg dye. That resevoir is now a different color than it was before you dropped in that one drop. Every additional drop or part of a drop will make that ocean a different shade of red. Every individual stream of energy that arrives at a frequency different than any other will reflect as a different shade of color. What color a receptor "sees" depends on the receptor. Going back to our easter egg dye. If I drop one drop of green dye into a quart of perfectly clear water, my eyes will register that now green water as a different shade of green than you would register it. Possible colors are infinite!

Answer 10

you need to refer to comptons encyclopedia 1966, look up the radiation spectrum. If you created an eyeball that could see other frequencies, you would not be seeing light, the answer is no. Read the article and you will begin to understand. (actually you would be percieving harmonic pulses)