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Anonymous Sun Jan 8 23:29:37 2012 No.4233246 [Reply] [Original]

what is white?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 8 23:30:40 2012 No.4233247 everything

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 8 23:30:40 2012 No.4233249 A social construct.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 8 23:31:49 2012 No.4233251 a race

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 8 23:35:12 2012 No.4233263 a set of wavelengths at a particular intensity

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 8 23:35:22 2012 No.4233268 File: 35 KB, 463x564, 1302586170675.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] BABY DON'T GREY ME DON'T GREY ME NO MORE

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 8 23:40:52 2012 No.4233285 File: 146 KB, 684x515, 1306436168525.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] the absence of color. cosmicly? its the absence of everything in existance but at the same time it is of which we can create anything

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 8 23:41:01 2012 No.4233287 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 8 23:41:01 2012 No.4233291 >>4233285 no, white is the sum of all colors, thats why lenses "make" colors. Or at least white light is

Anonymous Sun Jan 8 23:44:24 2012 No.4233298
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>>4233291
white as a color in the color spectrum does not exist because it is the absence of color, however you are correct in pointing out that "white light" is the some of all "colors of light" in the visible spectrum

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 8 23:49:07 2012 No.4233316 >>4233298 >is the some of all gtfo

Anonymous Sun Jan 8 23:53:29 2012 No.4233337
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>>4233316
>>4233316
you can refract light into different colors but you cant refract white paint into different colors. and if you take every color of paint and mix them you get black.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 03:47:56 2012 No.4233866 The color of a perfect mirror.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 03:58:38 2012 No.4233882 ITT: Nobody knows the difference between additive/subtractive coloring. Paint and light are two different things, niggers.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 04:04:57 2012 No.4233887 All or none of the colours in the spectrum of light depending on whether you use an additive or subtractive perspective of optics and sight.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 04:44:19 2012 No.4233930 >>4233268 you read my mind.

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