Black is not a color and science explains why

The famous doctor of physics, Javier Santaolalla, posted a video on social media explaining whether black is really a color. This is a somewhat controversial topic, since there are many things around the world that have this shade, and the thought that black may or may not be a color in itself can blow people’s minds.

For this reason, this Spanish scientist undertook the task of recording a video clip and giving a scientific explanation based on physics to explain in some way whether the color black exists in the universe.

Is black considered a color?

On the subject of the color black, Santaolalla explained: “All of this will depend on what we define as a color. For example, if we say that it is a human feeling, well, there is every reason to say that the color black yes, it is a color, because it is perceived, we can even paint something with color.” Black, there are paints, pens and black ink.

But he commented: “Things change a lot if we go to physics to explain it.” In this field we understand that color is nothing more than electromagnetic radiation that travels at a certain frequency. Light is a wave that rises and falls, depending on how fast it travels, so we have a different frequency, and this is how the color spectrum or rainbow is formed.

As the doctor in physics from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) explained, just as each color has its properties, it is the same with the frequency that he explained and taking this into account, in the colors of the rainbow there is no black anywhere and this is due to the reason explained by Santaolalla.

“There is no electromagnetic frequency that our eyes pick up and that the brain perceives as color. In this order of ideas, black is the absence of electromagnetic radiation, which is the same as when the eye sees nothing. Black is simply, in one way or another, the absence of light and From this point of view, black is not a color“.