Is everything one colour and it is all just reflecting light in different way giving colours?

Question

i dont even know if this makes any sense

Answer 1

You're kind of on the right track.  White light (sunlight) is made up of many different colours (the primary ones being red, blue and yellow - all other colours are made up from a combination of these) in their highest concentration.  A banana, say for example, is yellow because it absorbs all other colours except yellow, which it reflects.

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Without the suns rays we wouldn't be able to see colour at all, it wouldn't exist so yes everything would be colourless or monochrome. (black to white)

Answer 2

White light contains all colours, so why can't I mix red, blue and yellow paint to make white? I always get dirty brown. White can be obtained by spinning a top which has been painted the required colours. So how does this happen?

Answer 3

No.  Different wavelengths of visible light produce different sensations of color.

Answer 4

Not exactly.  Everything is made of matter and that matter reflects and adsorbs light in different ways giving it different colors.  The color (or colour if you're English)  is just the light frequencies our eyes detect.

Answer 5

The reflection of light of different wavelengths, which then register on our retinas together with our brain's interpretation, is what makes colours.

Things don't 'have' colour, its just what they absorb from the incident light that gives them that colour.

The only exception is fluorescence, where light of one wavelength is absorbed and emitted at a different wavelength.

Answer 6

EVERYTHING REFLECTS THE COLOR IT IS.