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Originally Posted by jmk
Really? I thought this was more accurate, but who knows?
Black is not a color; a black object absorbs all the colors of the visible spectrum and reflects none of them to the eyes.
White is a color. White reflects all the colors of the visible light spectrum to the eyes.
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Its been a looooong time since high school physics, but I could have swore we were taught that from a visual point, black was the absence of colour (because of absorbing all) and white was all colours (because of reflecting all)
Of course that would be in reverse for physical.