Speaker Geeks! discussion

Well if you're talking in a literal sense, than the word 'black' and 'white' don't refer to your race. It's just a color in the spectrum.

But because African Americans generally have dark skin tone, we nicknamed them Blacks.

And Americans are generally pasty white or pale, people nicknamed them Whites.

So yeah, Black and White are just colors. We just have another definition for the same word if you're referring to the actual race and not the color.

White is a combination of colors, and black is a lack thereof...so no?

I believe white is actually a color that your eyes are deceived into seeing, I'm not sure, but I think that's what my science teacher said. Therefore, whiste is not a color.

Of course black and white are colours, what they are comprised of, and the physics of what is reflected ought to be irrelevant; Black absorbs all colours while white reflects ,hence they are both colours determined by the absence or presence of others.
Apparently its the subject of much debate, really? Aren't there much more important matters to spend time on?:p
http://www.colormatters.com/color-and...

Technically, they are shades, not colours. Colours is when the light is reflected in a way so that our cone cells pick up the lighting as different tints. Black and white are more like shadows. Spots of light that either absorb ALL light, or NO light.

That's what my science teacher said.

My dads an ophthalmologist, so needless to say he knows a lot about eyes. I can get him to explain if anyone wants a more in-depth answer??

A combination of the entire prism I mean

Leah's right.

It's to do with the light.

Do/google this experiment: shine a light at a glass prism of some sort. What comes out at the other end is RPYGBIV.

Or just google refraction or reflection or bending light. Not sure of the exact term but ill find it.

It's refraction :)

A colour is seen bcuz the object obsorbed every other light wavelenght and reflects that particular wavelenght.
That is; If u see a blue box, then the object is obsorbing evry other colour wavelength of light, and reflecting only the blue wavelenght. So it appears blue.

When u see something white, it then the object is reflectiong ALL color/light wavelenghts. So all the color/light-wavelenghts mash up to make the white.

If an object appears black then it is absorbing evry wavelenth.