Author Topic: What is your favorite color?  (Read 4902 times)

Blue! I like most shades of it.

Navajo white.
Looks like cream from a rootbeer float.


Pshh, the visible spectrum is so lame. My favorite color is in the middle of the infrared band.

Pshh, the visible spectrum is so lame. My favorite color is in the middle of the infrared band.
Ultra Violet
Check and mate

Cerulean or Dark cerulean.


Keep your cancer out of this.
Oh yeah? Well... infrared is... too hot!

Ok I got nothing

Pshh, the visible spectrum is so lame. My favorite color is in the middle of the infrared band.
Technically that's not a color.  :cookieMonster:


Technically that's not a color.  :cookieMonster:
Why not. Just because we can't see it directly doesn't mean it cannot be seen and interpreted by our sensors.



This blue color.

Blue. No wait, red!

forgetIN'
MONTY PYTHON

Why not. Just because we can't see it directly doesn't mean it cannot be seen and interpreted by our sensors.
Color is just a word we came up with to describe certain wavelengths in the light spectrum. But colors are named based on what we see. Therefore, any light in the non-visible spectrum has no color.

For another example, think of it this way. Would you say water (pure water, of course) or air has color? No, of course not. However, if we were to magnify the water or air under a microscope down to the molecular or anatomical level, you'd mostly likely see colors. If that's the case, and they really do have color, why do we say they have no color? It's simply because color is a word, made by humans, defining something in the visual realm. Thus, if we can't see it, it is colorless.

If for some reason you're still not convinced, here's the definition of color:

1. the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way the object reflects or emits light.

And there you have it.

Color is just a word we came up with to describe certain wavelengths in the light spectrum. But colors are named based on what we see. Therefore, any light in the non-visible spectrum has no color.

For another example, think of it this way. Would you say water (pure water, of course) or air has color? No, of course not. However, if we were to magnify the water or air under a microscope down to the molecular or anatomical level, you'd mostly likely see colors. If that's the case, and they really do have color, why do we say they have no color? It's simply because color is a word, made by humans, defining something in the visual realm. Thus, if we can't see it, it is colorless.

If for some reason you're still not convinced, here's the definition of color:

1. the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way the object reflects or emits light.

And there you have it.

I'm not sure what dictionary you use, but merriam webster says the following:
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a :  a phenomenon of light (as red, brown, pink, or gray) or visual perception that enables one to differentiate otherwise identical objects
b (1) :  the aspect of the appearance of objects and light sources that may be described in terms of hue, lightness, and saturation for objects and hue, brightness, and saturation for light sources <the changing color of the sky>; also :  a specific combination of hue, saturation, and lightness or brightness <comes in six colors> (2) :  a color other than and as contrasted with black, white, or gray

Even if color were to be eye specific (which it isn't), there are many animals that see wavelengths we do not. Color depends entirely on the perception of the thing seeing it.