yEaYeAbOi
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Post by yEaYeAbOi on May 26, 2009 16:53:21 GMT -5
So I was sitting in science class, my mind wandered off into oblivion and the constant blabberings of my boring science teacher faded away. I was starting to think about light and how it allowed us too see the everyday colors we see.
Well I was wondering, we all know that space is black because there is no light source big or bright enough to illuminate the whole universe.
But hypothetically speaking, what if there was a light source bright and big enough to illuminate all of space. Would there be a color??? We all know the sky is blue because of atmospheric scattering, would the same thing happen to space???
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Post by Appayipyip the Klingon on May 26, 2009 19:55:25 GMT -5
It may.
The moon glows due to the sunlight reflecting off of it, and the glow around it seems almost...purple.
So I'm thinking, maybe purple, or even...lavender. But I'm not exactly the expert in this type of thing so my answer may or may not be accurate. Just a possible reasoning derived from the glowing of the moon.
Purple is probably the most likely, considering that blue is a color used to make purple and that all the blackness would probably darken the coloring anyway.
I really hope I made my point clear, I don't want to work at this and then find out I didn't make any sense at all.
Like I said, though, I'm really not sure, and I'm also not sure if this answer is enough for this board. If it turns out that it is not, then I'll try harder to explain more.
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yEaYeAbOi
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Post by yEaYeAbOi on May 26, 2009 21:42:31 GMT -5
That does kind of make sense I guess, LOL
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Post by Consonant*** on Jun 6, 2009 22:56:26 GMT -5
It would probably remain black. The universe is black because light intensity decreases in a parabolic fashion, so the light planets emit will be almost zero when it reaches us. This is assuming every point in the sky has a body somewhere far off. We'd see a lot more planets, but not much else. Vacuum isn't illuminated.
Also a body of light that bright would blind everybody, so yes, it would be black
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Horyo
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Post by Horyo on Jun 8, 2009 4:05:42 GMT -5
Space is, for the most part, empty and devoid of particles. Light shining through it wouldn't be scattered or refracted by any substance (or absorbed), so it would remain a bright intense light. The universe has no "color" because it is vacuous.
I dun like you CK, you got this before I did ;__;
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Post by Consonant*** on Jun 9, 2009 18:42:27 GMT -5
It would be neon pink with lots of lens flare. Transformers 3 plot.
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