Racist dichotomy

[Beaker]

(07-22-2016, 11:17 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I disagree. The ability for us to see a color is based on the light spectrum that is reflected back at us and picked up by the rods and cones in our eyes and then translated by the brain. Colors will absorb certain wavelengths and reflect others resulting in their specific color. So what is reflected is what our brain translates into color. White reflects all wavelengths, meaning it is all colors. Black reflects none, so it is the absence of color.

Two different things here....EM wavelengths in which white light contains all visible colors. This is proven by the fact that you can direct a white light through a prism and it will split the wavelengths into their component colors showing a rainbow:



It is also true that the colors we see are the result of the EM wavelengths reflected to the receptors in our eyes. The second part is pigments created by mixing colors. If you mix all pigments together you will get black. Lack of pigments will be white.

So both are correct.....white light contains all colors, while white pigments contain no colors.