Wednesday, December 23, 2009

An object appears to be a certain color because that's the only color of light it doesn't absorb but reflects?

UV and Infrared light is invisible right? If yes, then what if one were to make an object which only reflected UV or infrared light? WHat would it be like? Would it be invisible? Completely black (so you wouldn't even see any corners: looks 2D)?An object appears to be a certain color because that's the only color of light it doesn't absorb but reflects?
It would be black like other objects that do not reflect visible light.An object appears to be a certain color because that's the only color of light it doesn't absorb but reflects?
As the previous answer stated, an object that reflected only UV or infrared would indeed appear black. But you're a little off on why most ';colored'; objects appear the way they do. Most objects of that type reflect light of a wide variety of wavelengths, and only absorb at a few. But our eyes aren't very sophisticated at detecting colors; most of us only have three different kinds of ';color detectors'; in our eyes. So the absence of red, for instance, can be interpreted by our brain as ';green.';





There are some flowers that ABSORB only in UV. They appear ';colored'; in some sense to bees, but white to us.

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