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Your perspective on the color black?

It's been said that the color black is the absence of color yet if you wear something black out in the sun, it gets hot. Why is that and what is black?... absence of color or presence of color?

What do YOU think and why?

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    Black absorbs the light, so it gets hot.

    It's presence of color, because its absorbing the light that makes the color... white doesn't get hot because it doesn't absorb the light, and it has absence of color.

  • 1 decade ago

    Dark colors absorb heat because they don't reflect it as well as lighter colors, so they're hotter to wear.

    I guess black is the absence of color, considering how space is black. And how in a room without light, if you can see anything, you can't see color, just shades of gray.

    I like black. It's pretty cool.

  • 1 decade ago

    Black is a dark color. Darkness, as in night being dark attracts heat becuz of "texture" Absence of color for sure. It also makes you look thinner when wearing too meaning absence of color.

  • B
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Black can be defined as the visual impression experienced when no visible light reaches the eye.

    As a black color surface absorbs the light particles that hit it, the surface's particles are getting excited. The color black attracts heat and absorbs it making the object that is black warmer, because the particles have warmed up and are moving faster.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Black is definitely the presence of color. When you put all the colors together that makes black. I would say white is the absence of color. Next question please.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Absence of color.

    Turn off the lights. What color is everything? ;)

    Color is created when light hits an object. That object is the color of every single color light can create EXCEPT the color you perceive the object because the color you see is what your brain is reading.

    Therefore.. black is nothing.

    Source(s): color theory.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    White is all the colours combined and black is indeed the absence of colour.

    Black clothing gets hot because black absorbs the heat; it traps the heat.

    White clothing keeps you a bit cooler, because the heat sort of bounces off.

  • 1 decade ago

    Catalina is so wrong,

    the color black is formed when all colors are combined together, because :

    for example : you combine green(blue+yellow) with orange ( red + yellow) with purpule ( red + blue)

    what happen is, the colors can no longer be seperated, and each color combines with it's own, untill nothing is left,

    when there are no other colors left, that is why we see black, because black, as many said be4 me, represents absence of colors!

  • 1 decade ago

    Black material does not return light in the visible spectrum back to the eye. It absorbs the full spectrum of light, which is why it gets hot in the sun. A white shirt reflects the entire visible spectrum and your eye perceives it as white.It also helps you keep cool because it is reflecting much of the energy as opposed to absorbing it. Any variation in materials and texture changes the amount an frequency of light reflected/absorbed and the variations are perceived as different colours. A red shirt, for example, is perceived as red because it is absorbing all the other colours and reflecting red.

    Source(s): Personal knowledge.
  • 1 decade ago

    I think it is the presence of many colors. I mean, take a bunch of markers and color on top of each other and see if the result looks more like black or white.

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