Is there a color we haven't found?

Question

Do you think that there's a color on the color spectrum, or somewhere else, that we have not discovered? Maybe even one visible to humans that we just don't know of and can't even describe nor imagine what such a color looks like?

Is it possible?

On the visible color spectrum, there does seem to me to be very small changes that seem more rapid than in other places. Maybe we're even missing a few colors from the spectrum.

Answer 1

No.

The human eye is responsive to red, green, and blue light.  colors of light that fall between these primary colors, for example yellow, which falls between red and green, excite both the red and green receptors.  Television and computer monitors take advantage of this fact.  They only have red, green, and blue pixels, and create the illusion of other colors by varying the mixture of these colors.

At lower frequencies than red, you have infrared and radio waves which are invisible.  At higher frequencies you have UV, X-Rays, and gamma rays, which are all invisible too.  Now if we COULD see any of these other wavelengths, they would be perceived as new colors.  But all the wavelengths from red to violet ARE picked up and perceived as colors by your eyes so you're not missing anything.

Answer 2

.Yes,for example the color of shadows.

Answer 3

Yes. Have you ever thought what the world would look like without color? Black and White are colors, so they wouldn't count. Anyways, that's THE only color we haven't discovered. Like one answerer above said, we can see the color spectrum 400-700 nm.

Answer 4

Blorange

Purpllow

Gred

But seriously, Color derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light energy versus wavelength) interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors. There is a continuous range of color in the spectrum, and I'm sure there are folks coming up with all kinds of wacky names to label these differing shades  (just go to a paint store and check out the various names on the various samples)

Answer 5

It's a good question.Try asking it in one of the other Science categories.Eri's given you the right answer.You'll get confused here by nonsense..

Answer 6

The spectrum is a continuous band. It can be created by a prism. Any light that we can see will be accessible trough a prism (or a rainbow for that matter) if the incident light is not lacking discrete frequencies (and if it does, the spectrum will show those as dark bands and we would thus be able to find a better source of light).

There is no gap in what we can see. That said, if we had 4 color sensing types of cells like birds do (instead of only 3), we'd experience colors in a much different and richer way.

Answer 7

a color is your inturpritation of all the different wave lengths of light that hit your eyes.

Everyones inturpritation might be different.

Yes.  Other people might see colors that you don't, but they have the same name for them.

There's just no way to see what other people see.

There's no way to imagine a color that you haven't seen before.

Answer 8

It might be possible to mix spectrums in different ways to create some small variations of colors. This is what paint companies are constantly doing with creating new shades of blues, reds, etc. Though this would be a mixture of the light spectrum not a new pure color.

Does anyone on here know what the color spectrum might look like if the light source was from a white dwarf star or a red giant star as opposed to our sun?

Answer 9

I would imagine with the right technologies we will eventually be able to see all colors and ghosts as well. Some claim that some animals such as dogs and cats already can. Supposedly, some psychics can also. What if dark energy also had a color spectrum we couldn't see? Maybe ghosts are than basically very similar to dark energy.

Answer 10

no, i dont think so

Answer 11

Paint specialists invent new colors every day.  So, in that sense, the answer is yes.

In the sense of the spectrum of light, however, no.  Still, there are folks who are sensitive to light beyond what we consider the "normal" range.  I suppose they can be thought of as finding new colors.

Answer 12

No.  We can see the spectrum from 400 to 700 nanometers - blue to red.  We know what all of those look like.  And we can't see in any other part of the spectrum - so this is all our eyes can process.

Answer 13

ask bees, they can see 17 colors we can't. its about the visible spectrum of our eyes

Answer 14

i doubt it, but i like the way you think.

Answer 15

Color as we know it is just a manifestation of the visible spectrum, as humans see it.  We can create every single color visible to us very simply.

Answer 16

Yes, actually I believe theres alot we don't know