Is black the presence of all colors or the absence of all colors?
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Technically (and scientifically) black is the absence of all color, whereas white light contains all color within it.  If however, you are blending paints or playdoh, you probably know that "all" the colors put together tend to look brownish-black, and not white.  Therein, I imagine, lies some confusion.\n\nDespite forays into paint and clay blends, the science still holds.
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no, it does not. in physics, balck is not a colour. in the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum, there is no black. a total absence of any colour is represented by black in physics. black holes are so named because they have such a strong gravitational force that they even attract light and do not allow it to escape. hence the name
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Black is void of anything. So traditionally, story tellers and Spiritual leaders choose black. It is sort of scary to see something with no reflective value and devoid of light, don't you think?? I wouldn't be scared of a woman or man in pink, in an alley!  would you?
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Any color\n\n=0)\nSuerte
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There are two aspects to color:  pigment and wavelength.  Pigment is an aspect of the object we're talking about when we say "what color is it?"  Wavelength is an aspect of light, which is made up of different wavelengths.  White light contains all the possible wavelengths.  \n\nWhen light hits pigment, some of these wavelengths are absorbed and some are reflected.  A black pigment absorbs all the wavelengths; no color is reflected, so there is the absence of color--black.  When something looks red, it is because wavelengths in the red spectrum  of light are being reflected.  \n\nThings look different in different lights because not all light is white light.  Something will look different under a light bulb than under sunlight.\n\nLisaJay\n\nhttp://www.eclecticdetective.blogspot.com
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black is the absense of light\n\nwhite is the combination of all colors
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Colors is everything! They make the world more exciting! How could you live with a world that was just black and white??? THAT'S JUST CRAZY!!!
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Black Colour can be defined as the visual impression experienced in directions from which no VISIBLE LIGHT reaches the eye
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Lightning can be any color. It is reflected off things that are near it, so it could be any color.
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Black is Black, irregardless of the skin tone.  I am just happy to see women of color represented period.  I don't care how light or dark they are.
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im sorry but balck and white are not colours, but rather states describing the absence or presence of them all
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Yes, from a physics perspective there are an infinite number of colors.\n\nBut from the perspective of your retina, there are a finite number that you can perceive, in the thousands as I recall.
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absorption is the opposite of reflection ... black surfaces do not reflect light, colored surfaces only reflect the wavelengths of their color and white surfaces reflect all wavelengths.
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black is a color not a person.
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well.. i hate to be rasist, but in scientific info...black is a dominant color & secondary color...white is not a dominant color & it's primary. However, it depends on the family info on their genes cuz it reveals whether black color can win or white color can win to be on the baby. {Biology}
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Yes. Since black is absence of color, absence of light, it is often seen as evil because darkness suggests the unknown. People fear the unknown. Therefore, they conclude, that black is evil because they fear evil. But the unknown is only unknown until someone or something sheds light on it. Then, we often find that those things hidden to us are not always as scary as we seem to think they are.
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Dark is the absence of light.  It has no speed.