The color of nothingness
I sometimes imagine what the color of a void looks like. I'm not talking about black or darkness, I'm talking about the color of a space that has nothing. I can picture it perfectly in my mind. I sometimes think about it as the opposite of the color of light.
The color itself is indescribable in English, but it looks something like a simultaneous black and purple color with a strange irridescence to it. But it's not black or purple. I can't explain it.
What do you see if you have no eyes?
You would think just blackness, but how can you see the blackness if you have no eyes... When I'm 80 I'm going to have my eyes removed so I can finally know just before I die...
All colors put together equal black.
The absence of color is white.
So when you speak of no color, you speak of white not black or blackish-purple.
Well, either way, I had it closer than the poster of the question did!
LOL!
(additive: when color lights are combined they will create white; the absence of colors creates black
subtractive: when all pigment colors are added together they will create black; the absence of pigment colors creates white)
I got them mixed up!
Many commenters seem to have missed that this is actually a philosophical, metaphysical type of question. And I'm not claiming that everyone has to be interested in such questions, but to try and answer a rhetorical question with highschool science is not entirely the point.
First of all, vision is the way we perceive light - the absence of light is perceived as black. Since nothingness by definition is the absence of everything you would see black.
Totally unscientific question.
Lol, I try and think about new colours too. What could a new colour be, outside the spectrum. It's amazing, what we can invent with our mind and never be able to make new colours. Weird, huh?
I know this defies everything everyone above has said, but I imagine nothingless being either black or (my own preference) white, clouded with white grey. Don't ask me why, I have NO idea at all...
...but a bit stupid, nonetheless.
The color of nothingness isn't purple black. Where do you get THAT from?
I personally think the color of nothingness ISN'T a color at all. It must be a reflection, I believe. I don't know why I just think it's a reflection of...light, possibly? Or dark?
You know how the whole idea of Yin and Yang is that everything has somekind of opposite (fire/water, good/evil, man/woman)
Well... I tryed to imagen what I guess would be a "Negative Duck".