Nope.... neither of you get it. You see the color that is reflected... not absorbed. So when you see something orange. That thing absorbs every color but orange. So when black is absorbing every color it is the absence of color. White reflects every color so it is every color. So you're quite wrong.
I think a more accurate thing to say is that black is the absence of color.
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White (light) is all colors. If none of the wavelengths reflect, then there is no color, an absence of color on that surface.
Wait so does that mean that on st. Patricks day people who wear green aren't really wearing green, and people who wear any color except green are actually wearing green?? o.o
objects can absorb and reflect light. Something that appears green in colour, a leaf for example, will absorb red and blue light the best, but reflects green light, which is why it appears green. Black absorbs all light, but doesn't reflect it and therefore is defined as the absence of light.
White light however, reflects all light. That's why there are rainbows, because the white light from the sun gets refracted through the moisture still present in the air after it rains. In its refraction, the white light is split into the individual wavelengths of the colours that make up the visible spectrum.
Black is every color occurring all at once in the visible spectrum. No color would be white, which is the absence of color occurring in the visible spectrum.
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White (light) is all colors. If none of the wavelengths reflect, then there is no color, an absence of color on that surface.
White light however, reflects all light. That's why there are rainbows, because the white light from the sun gets refracted through the moisture still present in the air after it rains. In its refraction, the white light is split into the individual wavelengths of the colours that make up the visible spectrum.
Yours.
In response to me wearing black.