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Do You Imagine Nothingness as White or Black?
| White | 17% | 17% - 20 | ||||
| Black | 71% | 71% - 81 | ||||
| Other? | 11% | 11% - 13 | ||||
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Definately black if there is nothing.
But black isn't so bad as it sounds seing as the speed of light (white) can't even dream of becoming as fast as the speed of darkness (black) - just try it with any lightswitch at home
But black isn't so bad as it sounds seing as the speed of light (white) can't even dream of becoming as fast as the speed of darkness (black) - just try it with any lightswitch at home
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Black, i imagine it as an empty space, with no light...
White.
I think of it as a piece of paper. It starts out blank, with nothing on it, completely empty, and is then filled with pencil strokes.
I think of it as a piece of paper. It starts out blank, with nothing on it, completely empty, and is then filled with pencil strokes.
A blackness darker than the darkest night.
pinkish purple tbh
Black may represent the absence of light, but it is the combination of all color.
White is actually the absence of all color.
So it could go either way, depending on what your concept of nothingness is: the absence of light to see or the absence of color to differentiate.
Edit: Nevermind. Got absorption and reflection backwards.
White is actually the absence of all color.
So it could go either way, depending on what your concept of nothingness is: the absence of light to see or the absence of color to differentiate.
Edit: Nevermind. Got absorption and reflection backwards.
Last edited by FEOS (2008-01-08 13:50:40)
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flashing light green and hot pink.
nah, black.
nah, black.
technically it wouldn´t be black or white, just nothing. Because if you close your eyes it's still our eyes making us see a blackness, without eyes there ain't no black, no white, just nothing. Like someone who's born blind or hasn't got eyes.
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What a completely pointless poll: how can you determine the colour of something that isn't?
Space doesn't exist in "nothingness" with the latter being an empty medium; space creates its own medium, namely space, by the presence of matter. Prior to existence of matter there is no medium, you can't speak of "nothingness", because it simply does not be.
If you do not regard nothingness as a medium, but rather ascribe it to a "zero value", it doesn't and doesn't need to have a colour. Asking whether it's black or white would then be like asking what colour the number 0 has or how it tastes.
Null vote, evidently!
Space doesn't exist in "nothingness" with the latter being an empty medium; space creates its own medium, namely space, by the presence of matter. Prior to existence of matter there is no medium, you can't speak of "nothingness", because it simply does not be.
If you do not regard nothingness as a medium, but rather ascribe it to a "zero value", it doesn't and doesn't need to have a colour. Asking whether it's black or white would then be like asking what colour the number 0 has or how it tastes.
Null vote, evidently!
White... because... white seems empty, so you can see there's nothing there... if that makes sense.avman633 wrote:
black. Black to me seems like "nothing"
The answer is this: it's impossible to imagine nothing.
nuh uh
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
White is not white, it is no colour at all, because all the light is reflected to your eyes therefore the material has no colour even if it holds wavelengths outside the visible spectrum. Black is all colours because no visible light is being reflected back to you, or all the light is held within the material being viewed.
But no matter what, you still have the material either reflecting or holding the light you see and that negates the possiblility of "nothing". Nothingness would be void of light and matter and everything else. You could not look at nothing because there is no light either held by or escaping the nothingness as that would violate all known laws of physics.
Simply put, this entire question is non sequitur.
But no matter what, you still have the material either reflecting or holding the light you see and that negates the possiblility of "nothing". Nothingness would be void of light and matter and everything else. You could not look at nothing because there is no light either held by or escaping the nothingness as that would violate all known laws of physics.
Simply put, this entire question is non sequitur.
Am I being stupid now or is it the other way around: black being no colour because everything is being absorbed and white being all colours because everything is being reflected? I mean, we see the light that is reflected (e.g. red by a red object) and not that which isn't reflected?ReTox wrote:
White is not white, it is no colour at all, because all the light is reflected to your eyes therefore the material has no colour even if it holds wavelengths outside the visible spectrum. Black is all colours because no visible light is being reflected back to you, or all the light is held within the material being viewed.
White = color. Color needs light. Light is energy. Energy needs matter.
Black = absence of color. Ergo absence of light. Ergo absence of energy, ergo absence of matter.
Black = absence of color. Ergo absence of light. Ergo absence of energy, ergo absence of matter.
That is all about point of view.Lai wrote:
Am I being stupid now or is it the other way around: black being no colour because everything is being absorbed and white being all colours because everything is being reflected? I mean, we see the light that is reflected (e.g. red by a red object) and not that which isn't reflected?ReTox wrote:
White is not white, it is no colour at all, because all the light is reflected to your eyes therefore the material has no colour even if it holds wavelengths outside the visible spectrum. Black is all colours because no visible light is being reflected back to you, or all the light is held within the material being viewed.
You are taking the point of view of the object and not the person observing it. If you are the object and someone looks at you and sees black then you as the object are all colours because you are not giving off any visible light.
But in the context of this question you are the observer and not the object so black is you observing an absence of visible light therefore the object you see as black is actually all colours.
Your point of view would best be used with the question "If you were nothingness would you imagine yourself as black or white?".
Ive heard the exact opposite.DoctaStrangelove wrote:
White = color. Color needs light. Light is energy. Energy needs matter.
Black = absence of color. Ergo absence of light. Ergo absence of energy, ergo absence of matter.
color: a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
White is all colours by definition, all the wavelengths are reflected back at you.
Colour is not what light something retains, it's what light it gives off.
Therefore Black is nothingness by definition, having no colour because it gives none off.
Discussion solved.
White is all colours by definition, all the wavelengths are reflected back at you.
Colour is not what light something retains, it's what light it gives off.
Therefore Black is nothingness by definition, having no colour because it gives none off.
Discussion solved.
Last edited by rh27 (2008-01-08 16:20:06)
It would be nothing. Neither black nor white, or anything in between. If we can perceive nothingness, than nothingness can not exist. To be able to observe it, we would be part of it, and if we are something, then nothingness is not possible. I personally do not believe in "nothingness".
Black, or, rather, an absence of photons, which would appear black. Of course, in a universe of zero volume and infinite density, there really isnt space for colors.
I would imagine "nothingness" to be devoid of colour and therefore, black
Let's not debate black being a colour but those who understand will... understand
Let's not debate black being a colour but those who understand will... understand
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