Re: Favourite colour

"Esben Westphal" <Westphal-4/2gTIUkVp2ZJ5YMblWIIlpr/1R2p/[email protected]> Mon, 15 Aug 2005 01:38:47 +0200
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From: "Kevin Mulligan" <[email protected]>

> You haven't explained anything, all you've done is regurgitate a poor  
> textbook definition of light.  Why do wavelengths of light represent  
> different colours?  If they really do, why can't the colours be seen  
> as they pass through the air?

They vissible aren“t vissible flying through the air because there are no partcles to reflect them 
 
> If white light really did contain every other colour then surely a  
> room lit by the sun would be flooded with every possible colour?   

The fact is that white light only works as an catalyst for the colours of objects to be shown 

> This is obviously not the case therefor the logical conclusion is  
> that white light contains no colours and is not a colour, it only  
> serves to illuminate objects and which will possess colours of their  
> own.

how comw then that red will seem blue  in red light and everything appears black in a dark room ? 

BTW , my favorite colour is Yellow