RE: Favourite colour

As a physicist, I'd like to point out that you're completely wrong - black
is the absence of everything whilst white is merely what our brains
interpret as a mix of the entire spectrum. Of course, this is only talking
about light, whereas with pgiments, you're correct.

YMMV. HAND.
Aled. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-bounces-Hb7ITwsGSD4lroQnaJEqWdi2O/[email protected] 
> [mailto:public-bounces-Hb7ITwsGSD4lroQnaJEqWdi2O/[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin Mulligan
> Sent: 14 August 2005 10:44
> To: Blitzed News Goat
> Subject: Re: [blitzed] Favourite colour
> 
> As an philosopher I hold the opinion that black and white are 
> not colours.  Black is the over-abundance of colour while 
> white is the absence of colour.
> 
> 
> On 14 Aug 2005, at 21:13, Matt Marsh wrote:
> 
> 
> > Philipp Kern wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On Aug 14, 2005, at 10:27 , Tim Hicks wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Look, if black and white aren't colours - what are they?
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Black absorbs all and white reflects all. They aren't 
> really colours  
> >> then, right? ;)
> >>
> >>
> >
> > According to [1]Wikipedia:
> >
> > "Some examples of necessarily non-spectral colors are the 
> achromatic 
> > colors (black, gray and white)..."
> >
> > therefore implying that they are colours.
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour
> 
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