• Question: if there was no light and we didn't need light to see would there be colour?

    Asked by 622medb55 to Clare, Glafkos, Paul, Samantha on 11 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: anon

      anon answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      Don’t think so. Since light is made up of all the colours and if there was no light there would be no colour.

    • Photo: Glafkos Havariyoun

      Glafkos Havariyoun answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      No light no colour. Maybe however we could see different shades of the same colour if we had thermal vision 🙂 So depending on how hot the object was we would see it as darker or brighter 🙂

    • Photo: Clare Devery

      Clare Devery answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      No light, no colour! But as Glafkos has said, if we didn’t see by light, there must be another system to replace our standard vision. So depending on what that is – we could see all sorts of strange sights!

    • Photo: Samantha Terry

      Samantha Terry answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      i think not.

    • Photo: Paul Booker

      Paul Booker answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      Light is made up of lots of parts, and humans can only see one small section of it – the visible spectrum. Colours are just how we see different parts of this visible spectrum. Some animals can see other parts of the spectrum that we can’t see, which means they can see completely different colours too!

      So if we didn’t have the bits of light that we can see normally then maybe humans would have evolved to see other parts of the spectrum – who knows!

      But if there was no light whatsoever then colour doesn’t really make any sense, as colour is just a way of dividing up the light you’re able to see.

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