aommaster Posted January 19, 2004 Author Posted January 19, 2004 yeah. half way through the thread, i got confused myself on what we were talking about! I had to reread the whole thing to understand what was going on, even though i was following every new post! Edit: i've GOT to improve my sPeLlInG
iglak Posted January 19, 2004 Posted January 19, 2004 YT2095 said in post # :the true opposite of red is black, and the true opposite of green is also black why isn't the opposite of green the absence of green from white? green is the absence of red and blue from white (light, not paints), so shouldn't those two be opposites? black is just in the middle of those two.
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted January 19, 2004 Posted January 19, 2004 Oh, and you wouldn't have an opposite yourself. I believe the opposites we are talking about are of the particle variety.
aommaster Posted January 20, 2004 Author Posted January 20, 2004 I am REALLY getting confused. Ok firstly, we have to make up our minds, what is the opposite of green? BLACK or THE ABSENCE OF GREEN FROM WHITE LIGHT?
Sayonara Posted January 20, 2004 Posted January 20, 2004 There is no opposite. You are getting confused with complementary colours.
aommaster Posted January 20, 2004 Author Posted January 20, 2004 hmm... but couldn't u count the NO green as the opposite of green?
Sayonara Posted January 20, 2004 Posted January 20, 2004 Is the absence of a pencil the opposite of a pencil?
aommaster Posted January 20, 2004 Author Posted January 20, 2004 good point. And what WOULD be the opposite of a pencil? Couldn't it be a perncil in antimatter?
aommaster Posted January 20, 2004 Author Posted January 20, 2004 yeah, but, isn't anti matter the opposite of matter. I heard if these two were put together, they would cancel each other out!
Sayonara Posted January 20, 2004 Posted January 20, 2004 Equal masses of matter and antimatter will annihilate each other with the release of a vast amount of energy. I suppose it depends how you want to define "opposite". Is mutual annihilation one of the criteria? It's difficult to tell. For instance we say wet is the opposite to dry, but one usually annihilates the other.
aommaster Posted January 20, 2004 Author Posted January 20, 2004 hmm... you have a point there. How would you think of it?
Sayonara Posted January 20, 2004 Posted January 20, 2004 It's an unusual question. I just thought of an example that does involve mutual annihilation. If you walk East away from a fixed point, then walk back again, you've annihilated your journey by walking East and West. Doesn't really help us find the opposite of green, admittedly.
aommaster Posted January 20, 2004 Author Posted January 20, 2004 I heard that light does cancel each other out, te only reason it does not is because of its high frequency, so can't be count light as an anti- of itself? Complex stuff!
Sayonara Posted January 20, 2004 Posted January 20, 2004 Well, like R_E said it is considered to be it's own anti-particle, but the question is "does that make it the opposite to light?", which depends on your definition of 'opposite' as I said above.
aommaster Posted January 20, 2004 Author Posted January 20, 2004 oh. I'll need to do a little more thinking on this!
Sayonara Posted January 20, 2004 Posted January 20, 2004 I think I should point out that an "anti-bubble" is not really an anti-bubble, it's a bubble. It just happens to have a non-conventional shape. There's no problem with considering it to be a negative bubble though, but you need to apply the same process for anything you're comparing it to (light, matter, potatoes etc).
aommaster Posted January 20, 2004 Author Posted January 20, 2004 yeah. I thought of opposite in the way of negative. Like reversed. Like the bubble you were talking about. Light can also be reversed, complimentary colors. That's was what i was trying to say
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted January 20, 2004 Posted January 20, 2004 But technically, it's not anti-light, only anti-protons are the opposite, BUT light is it's own opposite, so the opposite of green is green! (just kidding) This is too confusing.
aommaster Posted January 21, 2004 Author Posted January 21, 2004 Thanx alot captain! Now i am REALLY confused! lol
YT2095 Posted January 22, 2004 Posted January 22, 2004 Cap'n Refsmmat said in post # :But technically, it's not anti-light, only anti-protons are the opposite, BUT light is it's own opposite, so the opposite of green is green! (just kidding) This is too confusing. you present an iteresting idea when talking about a specific color, phase cancelation with addative or subtractive synthesis of color would be interesting from a semantic point of veiw, it could be argued that it would be the opposite of Green, infact it would be a conflicting waveforn, peak to trough in anti-phase. the true opposite it black though, you`de be simply providing a means to obtain black
Sayonara Posted January 22, 2004 Posted January 22, 2004 YT2095 said in post # : the true opposite it black though, you`de be simply providing a means to obtain black Reasoning?
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