What "color" is everything in the dark?

Question

Color is just reflected light as we know...but when there is no light, what do you think everything looks like?
Clearish? White?
Just something to think about..

Answer 1

"Dark" is the absence of light. The problem is that the word is used to describe many subtle degrees.

White light reflects off of objects at a specific frequency, and our eyes pick up those frequencies and translate them to colors. As it gets “darker” in a room, there can be less white light, or only light at the lower frequencies available, making the darker colors less distinguishable. If there is less white light, but still white light, then the colors remain true, but are less “bright”. If there is more light from lower frequencies available in the room, then the colors themselves change, depending on what light is hitting them. Think of what a black-light does to colors for an example.

So now it comes to a scientific vs. philosophical definition of color. Is color a property of the object itself, independent of the environment in which that object currently rests (is a red car dark purple if it’s in a closed garage with nothing but blacklights, or is it still red?), or is color a perception of the human eye, and with no eye to find the color, is it simply reflected light?

Kind of a new twist on "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?", huh?

Answer 2

Just black because if you bleand all the colors in the eleticromagnectic specterm you have white.

Answer 3

I think they resemble black most because there is almost no light being reflected back into our retinas. Similary, black looks "black" because most of the wavelengths of light in the visible spectrum is absorbed. Two very different scenarios but similar results? What do u think?

Answer 4

Technically... as the rays of light are defused... the last color left... is Blue. So... in the "dark", absence of light things are technically black... but before that, blue.

Answer 5

I don't see well in the dark. So um, Black blobs...

In order to see colors, you need light, which wouldn't be found in the dark.....

Answer 6

everything is just a darker shade of their original color to me... like its almost black but... it still stands out from darkness.

Answer 7

In case you've never experienced dark before, it looks...dark. As in black. As in no color.

Answer 8

In my opinon the color black absorb even heat

Answer 9

black which is no color, white is all colors

Answer 10

since the colors are reflectors, when there is no light there are no colors!