Talk:Microspectrophotometry

"A common fallacy is assuming that the colors of objects we perceive are actually their colors, when in fact these are the colors that are not absorbed by the objects, but are instead reflected. A brown wooden desk is not brown, it is every color except for brown. Brown wavelengths are not absorbed by the brown desk, and are reflected back to our retina, fooling us into thinking the desk is brown when in fact it is a mixture of every other color but brown."

dont be stupid please. yours is the fallacy. why are you trying to redefine what the concept of color means? (and is this an article about color perception? where is the microspectrophotometry part?)

an object's color depends on how we perceive it, not on what range of colors it absorbs. a red apple is indeed "red" because we perceive it as red (because it reflects red light). thus, to extrapolate, please dont say that a piece of charcoal is in fact white because it absorbs almost all the light that falls on it. charcoal is black, in fact because it absorbs almost all the light that falls on it.

Simastrick 10:53, 15 May 2006 (UTC)