h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

In the Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy, The Guide talks about how man discovers that Black is White and White is Black. I think I figured out how!
Have you heard about how white has all the colors in the universe? AND! Have you heard that black also has all the colors in the universe? Then doesnt that make them the same? If you find a rock and it has the same proporties as Quartz,then isnt it Quartz? So black and white are the same color, but I think the reason that we see them differently is that the colors of the universe is arranged differently or that the light frequenceys bounce off the assorted universal colors in different ways so that one seems different than the other, but in accuality, they are the same.

Enjoy!

very true. You hold up a good argument there. Like I said befor on IM... it's probably different vave lengths, so our eyes react differntly. But heres another question... DO YOU KNOW WHAT A ZEBRA CROSSING IS???


all my american friends here in the US never heard of such a thing... the thought it ment man was mobbed by Zebras.


SO SO YOU?????

um i think its like when zebras cross a side walk.... haha i donno!
ya, it could be your eyes or wave lengths... i donno
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ford

It's what we americans call a "pedestrian crossing" you know, the black and whit lines across the sreet that you walk across infront of cars with the WALK DON'T WALK sign?

OOOOHHH!! OK i get it now... zebra, stipes HAHA! i get it!
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ford

well, actually, white is the absence of color.

sorry man, close but no cigar.

Want tea???

and no i didnt think man was mobbed by zebras(im american)

ugh! If i have to explain this one more time....

Ok... white is NOT an absence of color... it has no DIFINED color because is it all the colors. Have you heard of wite light? It is a for of light energy which humans can see. It contains every color that can be seen in the rainbow. Rainbows come from white light... It you take white light and shine it through a prism you see a red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indago and Violet. The same colors that you see in a rainbow right? Thats because rain bows are white light reflecting off of and shining through water vapor in the air which act just like prisms. (I know you know all this)

Ok... now that we've established that white light has every color in it... we need to understand that it is white light that lets us see color, when it shines on a green obgect it lets us see the color green... and so on. But when we see white light on a white sheet of paper we are actually seeing all the colors in white light (because, if you recall, there is no color white in the rainbow) so if there is every color in the color white then it can also be said to have no color because infinaty = zero. There for it is and UNDIFINED color, with every other color in it at a wave length we cannot see (you can't actually SEE white light, we just need it to see)

Black also theoreticly has all the colors of white light in it, just at different wave lengths, so our eye react differently.

Thank you.


PS: about the infinity = zero thing... it's true. It's proven. And it will freak your math teacher out. Take a square. It has four sides correct? Now add on 4 more sides. Now do it again. Keep doing it until you have an infinite amount of sides. You now have so many that your square has become a circle. A circle has no sides. There for... infinity = zero. Don't beleive me? Draw the shapes out your self.

hmmmmmm what if you have one square.. add another square next to it, add and inffanite number of squares... then you have... alot of squares... i guess it kind of depends on hhow you see it, but i will use it to freak my teacher out... do even have math class? sheesh! i cant remember
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ford

show me proof that white has all the colors cause last i heard white is the absence of color.

well thats fine... you obviously heard another theory. No one knows anything for SURE... probably everything we guess is wrong... human kind just likes to argue about stuff and who ever has the better argument is apparently right.

AHEM...

you still haven't shown YOUR argument... just saying that you HEARD it was an absence of color, doesn't mean it's true! COME ON! Suport your argument! I'm in the mood for a good debate!

im always in the mood to debate!
i also heard the absence of color theory, but there isnt enough proof! i was walking through the snow today, and saw purple and blue and pink... just by looking at it! i think there is every color in the universe in white
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ford

are you sure you weren't... oh never mind.

maybe
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ford

wow... i think i'm shrinking... either that or you grew ALOT over the week end (see my new journal)


I think we scared that other dude away ford....

oh dear... hmm... i donno
but i know that white has all the colors in it! i know! it has to! how else can you explain the snow changing colors? other than someone peeing on it.... haha
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ford

whoops made a mistake up there...

yes you are right that black is white and white is black but...only for wavelengths and such. But when it comes to pigments(which is what it is with zebras) white is the absence of color. Want proof, here you go. Albinos lack any pigmentation in their skin so they are white. So in the end we are both right.

well ya, but i dont know what a zebra crossing is... it might be paint... but... the lack of pigment has all pigments in itso they cancel eachother out? maybe...
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ford