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Chaney34 asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 1 decade ago

Did we have a "white" beginning?

Before "god" began the creation of anything there was nothing. I've always wondered what "color" "nothing" was or is. Since "white" is the absence of color, does that mean, "In the beginning" all was white?

Update:

I've realized a lot of you are saying that White is not the absence of color. You are wrong. I'm not talking about "white" light. A couple things...One if you take a bunch of colors and put them together, you will not get white...you will notice that your concoction is getting darker and darker towards black. Black is the conglomeration of all colors. The prism thing the one user said she learned in kndergarten is wrong. Which is probably why you learned it in kindergarten. What you were seeing is the reflection of light. Light contains a multitude of colors regardless of its source. That's what you were seeing. Regardless, the point of the question is more scientific than religious. Before what god supposedly created, what color would everything have been? It couldn't have been black, because then that would mean there were other colors.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    If you mix oigments the resulting colour tends towards black. Pigments absorb light. A cyan pigment absorbs all light except for cyan (a mic of colours around blue) and thus appears cyan. If you add yellow pigment to it the red end of the colours within cyan will also be absorbed and you'll be left with green. If you absorb all colours then (and this is important) NONE will be reflected and you'll see black.

    If you ADD colours, like in a TV set, it works in reverse. If you add blue and green you get cyan. If you add all the colours you get white. Black on a TV screen is produced by no colours being emitted.

    So white may be the abscence of colour but it is not the abscence of light. White as an abscence of colour would be better (in this context) described as "the abscence of any preponderance of a particular wavelength of light". The abscence of light per se appears black (switch off the light at night and see). So we had a black beginning.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Well, since there's no evidence of any kind that "god" created anything, there's really no answer to your question :)

    If you go by science, before anything there was nothing -- no space, no time. For the first 200,000 years or so after the big bang, space and time were still very densely packed with matter, so dense that light (as photons) could not emerge from the density. Once space expanded enough for light to break free, the universe was still a lot smaller than it is now, and was flooded with light...so I guess that could be considered "white." We can still see the remains of that period today in the cosmic microwave background radiation, and it's quite uniform with only small density fluctuations.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    First of all, white is not the absence of color, white is every color put togethter. When a wheel of the 7 colors of the rainbow is spun, the color they make is white. We learned that in kindergarten. Black is the absence of color. Black, true black, is a concept, and emptyness, a true nothing. It is a vacume. Black holes.

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    1 decade ago

    Are you seeing this backward. As the colors of the rainbow are contained within sunshine, so to are we all contained within the light of Gods unconditional love. Could it be that Black is the primal color and all others emanate from it. Black has long been the color symbolizing Royalty.

    Source(s): experience
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  • 1 decade ago

    actually,,,, if you break down white light, you get all colors,,,,, you get the full spectrum of the rainbow. Black, is actually the absense of color. no part of the color spectrum reflects off of black. color works by a certain part of the spectrum reflects off that particular object.

    We will never know what anything was like before creation, until we can ask God face to face. it will be amazing, wont it.

    good luck, have a good day!!

  • 5 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    This is a very good question.

    I believe that that would be a great theory to hold to.

    I had a couple of experiences that lead me to belive that this is very well the truth.

    There are also many stories from others over thousands of years speaking about experiences that showed light moving into people, people moving towards a pure white/silvery light...etc.

    Source(s): life
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think no, to a "white-beginning", but maybe a "white-ending". . . Who could know?

    And think yes, to a "black-beginning", by way of reasoning. True, black is the color of no-colors, also, think of a black-hole, and the Big Bang Theory too. . . What do you see when you close your eyes, black or white?

    : )

  • 1 decade ago

    I believe white light is the combination of whole light spectrum.

    Ever held a prism?

    Ninny. . .lol

  • 1 decade ago

    nothing is the absence of time and space, it is diffacult to conceve. the idea of non existance is hard to put into words

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