Can Light be Black? Mind-Blowing Dark Light Experiments!

In this video I test if light can be black. I show you several experiments that show you cases of light that is black and then I talk about what color actually is and why mixing pain and light give you the same but different results!
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[@johnnyh6355]

-So can light be black? -Yesn't.

[@nalinsingh8875]

Yeah this is big brain time

[@SiMon-ou7zy]

If our eyes trained to decode these wavelengths how can we train them to see others

[@keribailey6193]

😭😂😂😂 @3:38 am I woke my husband up in a panic from cackling.

[@Das644]

@@SiMon-ou7zy you naturally cant. Of course unless you have supernatural abilities or evolution leads your genes(DNA) to do it

[@Alter-Smp]

What did he saaaaaaaay

[@Kvng.Pvrsxns]

“Color is in our heads”. Love how this man just disbanded racism through science.

[@CienciaFiccionPeru]

Totally agree

[@garimasharma2384]

great point!!

[@MarcusCathey0425]

Lol no he didn't. Your statement is quite racist I'm not a color I'm a race. I never in my life seen a while person but have seen some Caucasians

[@Kvng.Pvrsxns]

@@MarcusCathey0425 first of all Marcus, the only race you belong to is the human race. And for you to say that statement in a time where no one can be unified on anything is not only selfish but bigoted of you to say. And yes as a black man I can be prejudice, but I can NEVER be racist in this society. So with all do respect, if you cannot appreciate this person trying to do something positive with their influence, than you do not need to be apart of this community. If you aren’t racist than there would be no reason for you to say that when the goal is to love each others as humans. I hope you learn that these statements do not make you a victim.

[@offtomars1]

You had to bring race to a non race chann. F you

[@rodrigohidalgo6307]

I remember being about 14 years old [15 years ago] in science class and asking my science teacher if we perceive colors differently since it's all about perception and they shut me up and told me that this was a stupid question and dismissed it. SO glad to feel validated about that and some of the crazy ideas and theories i made up in my head in highschool

[@annoyingseagull3101]

I asked this question two weeks ago and he said yes but the difference is most likely very subtle and hardly noticeable but it may be more for others as in colorblind people

[@davinfriggstad]

Muh-skurgan

[@911Lithium911]

Teachers suck

[@nikkishana201]

Sometimes teachers are more stupid than average people…

[@911Lithium911]

@@nikkishana201 more like a majority of the time. Especially those who teach younger children.

[@ssplintergirl]

Man just ended racism

[@iluvpeanuts7919]

ssplintergirl I had the same thought

[@kimli3733]

Hmmm , i already imagine someone screaming at a black man : HA !! YOURE MY SHADE !! HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE JUST A SHADE AND NOT A PROPER COLOR

[@mikehammer8334]

ssplintergirl lmao

[@informatimago]

Sure. He just demonstrated that white is a more intense black and black is a way weaker white. Good job at ending racisms! :-) LOL

[@llarry2009]

White = Black + Black = White - White = 2 + 1 = 3 Black = 2 - 1 = 1 White - Black = Gray Gray = 2

[@Red-bw1vm]

Man im just here to find out how to make a dark saber

[@slayz6776]

赤Red your not the only one

[@shaecampbell7498]

赤Red same

[@cilastind4041]

Same! ;D

[@twizzyyy3955]

Want a tip, build your saber black, and put White ledlights inside the black saber or outside

[@15yearoldnerd24]

A protosaber is easier and a KZbin's already did it

[@vibey_obito]

That insect from 4:03 to the end , he was moving in circles and was just vibing😂

[@bfbrynemo2058]

You mean the white insect?

[@FlyingGentile]

Me: *watches this video* Also me at night: "It's so white outside"

[@sjoerd.2004]

2:10 Ok, this man just solved rasism.

[@Bigchungus-xm9qs]

😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@okay5876]

@@Volonid clearly you are not a alpha male

[@rptrmacct]

If that was actually true, racism wouldn’t exist.

[@rptrmacct]

@@Volonid No I didn’t

[@NomTom]

and 3:19 reestablished it again

[@ziontrask3459]

The fact that white and black are both the same color and opposites is intense

[@thechef9522]

Wouldnt have guessed.

[@Raccon_Detective.]

Racism has been destroyed

[@therealtampadude9175]

There is no black and white, only shades of grey. ;-)

[@chaitanyarao3102]

@@therealtampadude9175 black and white just may increase or decrease the intensity

[@calebbrooks8981]

@@therealtampadude9175 are there 50 😏😏

[@PopoRamos]

What you have demonstrated is called exposure compensation, it happens both in auto exposure cameras and your own eyes as the pupil open and closes. If you had kept the exposure the same, the room would be very bright, but you would still see the phone as white. Also in the projector scene, i figure there would still be light present due to spill that happens in the projector and its measured by the projector contrast ratio. If this was done on an oled panel, the blacks would be truly black, minus the spill light that would be bouncing around the room and coming back to the dark area. If you where in a void where the light could not travel back to the surface you would see (Or not see lol) truly black (Ignoring the fact that your own face and body would serve as a bounce card). As a photographer i would say Black is the absence of light and any shade above would be gray.

[@DanJuega]

Sounds like the difference between zero and one or any other number.

[@PopoRamos]

@@DanJuega Pretty much. Anything above 0 is something lol

[@DanJuega]

@@PopoRamos No, I meant to say that it seems like an unnecessary distinction as zero is still a number.

[@PopoRamos]

@@DanJuega Maybe so, what I name the color is just my opinion, based on my observations

[@father3dollarbill]

@@DanJuega wouldnt zero in this analogy be the absence of a number? like one object is a object and none is zero

[@gavins6419]

"Does it matter if its light or paint hitting your eye? It actually doesn't" Me: splashes a bucket of paint in my eyes

[@Random_sandwich]

''Hey, its too bright in here, could someone get the dark''

[@qwerty4248]

dam

[@kybeastmode]

Just finish your sentence with the word light

[@ste3547]

you mean...... other inferior light

[@qwerty4248]

@@ste3547 that still is a question the wise man never responded prolly because no one asked

[@Kaldrin]

That would be a really cool concept, like anti light!

[@leo-kp3df]

My friend: i like this black t-shirt Me: it is actually white My friend: wtf do you mean? Me:

[@fadziana]

Noice

[@factindia2873]

😂😂😂

[@TempoChannel5]

BRUHH

[@ananthuashokan8219]

How white are you bruh

[@stavros222]

Who is colorblind?

[@GeorgeCowsert]

I think the question more revolves around the concept of negative light, like a flashlight that makes everything its "light" touches appear darker. Almost like an artificial shadow generator, with no light source between the obstruction and the shadow itself. However, such technology would likely require either physics components we aren't aware of yet, or devices so cold they read in the Negative Kelvin range and possibly cannot exist.

[@friedrichrubinstein2346]

Negative Kelvin range? That's impossible by the very definition of Kelvin.

[@maozedong8370]

Only dark matter is known to "obstruct" light. If you could harness dark matter to create a dark flashlight somehow, that would be possible. It is however beyond our technology and is also highly impractical. For what purpose would you require such a device other than as a novelty item? I take that back, it would be incredibly useful. harnessing dark matter would take camouflage to the next level. It would pioneer revolutionary stealth technology.

[@sugarraybow]

Well it is possible. Just imagine you have a flashlight with a parabolic light and at the center of it you just have a solid cover. Now when you shine your flashlight at something, you will have a shadow in the center while everything else around it is lighten up, so anyone looking at it, would perceive the center as dark or black because around it's very bright. So basicly the same phenomenom you can see int he video.

[@TheLobsterCopter5000]

The thumbnail promised me the flashdark, but the video just delivered low levels of light.

[@bobstringer9809]

So, my Oreo cookie is just an optical illusion 😳

[@tracik1277]

I can actually make Oreos disappear before your very eyes.

[@thebaneofhumanity.]

by eating them? Edit: Ty for the likes

[@ew3071]

😑

[@jigglypuff2499]

Give meeeeeee

[@Rahian_El_1]

Nice

[@photondance]

I’m an artist, and I mainly do ceramics; but I can draw. My favorite drawing medium is colored pencils, or dry pastels. My favorite surface is black illustration board. It’s just easier for me to imagine how color builds on a black surface.

[@LeviReyes-lo5ne]

pigment colors are not the same to light colors

[@LeviReyes-lo5ne]

I say this because you said you can draw, I don't know if you draw digital art

[@photondance]

@@LeviReyes-lo5ne I have a Cintiq, and an iPad Pro, so yeah I do some digital illustrations.

[@Thy_Vomp]

100th like and Hey I'm also An artist!!

[@chandllerburse737]

You are continuing Bruce Timms work from Batman the Animated Series i see.

[@brimcap9891]

I just heard two words that don't go together *DARK LIGHT*

[@gamingwithdeku9992]

You call this oxymoron

[@brimcap9891]

@@gamingwithdeku9992 cool

[@gamingwithdeku9992]

@@brimcap9891 yep, learnt that in literature class 😅😅

[@darklightsolace3920]

Rip

[@ahpinge2777]

White Ink

[@NijiHoloFan]

Additive color mixing and Subtractive color mixing, dimming certain colored light to get a different color, mixing a dark pigment with a brighter one to get a different color, black light, white light - this video is pretty much a basic guide to color theory. As a hobby artist trying to hone their skills, i appreciate you making this video. Now i know how the color wheels in digital art programs work, as well as paints for traditional art.

[@FBI-hh4tf]

The fact that I don't understand anything here but surprisingly still knows what's happening

[@4minutecrafts59]

I m not black, i actually absorb more light rather than throwing it back

[@CJ-bn3yx]

Yes..That is what black is...

[@fachryalfarissi1282]

#logic

[@Henry.mp4]

@@CJ-bn3yx r/WOOOOSH

[@WhyYouStalkingMe420]

Well said man.. do u understand the sarcasm in ur comment.. as could find out

[@Sabestooo]

U absorb more light because ur black not white

[@boomballing3598]

5:10 this bug ... THIS BUG IS DRIVING ME CRAZY !!!!

[@yamarenggo1773]

Why do i think of the bug.. like a game bug or videos bug

[@ahmedkay3166]

mr too

[@ubuu7]

It ruins his cutting of the video too, the bug reveals ALL !!!!!!!

[@usagiichiban3482]

Yes.. it really bugs me too.

[@picklechip2275]

@@usagiichiban3482 lol nice pun

[@brianbeswick]

So the bug crawling around on his background screen is really a white bug that’s looks black because it’s absorbing more light than all the surroundings.

[@tinkerstrade3553]

I noticed that! It made it easy to catch the edits, as the bug blinked in and out of existence. 😄

[@Butcher339]

I was always thinking about black light while seeing black elements on white wall made just by a regular projector

[@TheDonElizondo]

*Fact: some cameras show the sun as a white circle while others show it as a black circle.*

[@hurgusburgus938]

Yup, my tablet's camera shows the Sun as black

[@saralatatripathi4125]

If we invert the colours

[@corruptedstudiosentertainm3455]

That's called burning out your sensors and shutter curtains because you aren't using a solar filter. lol

[@Shiroi-Kuro]

@@corruptedstudiosentertainm3455 nice

[@brandonwilson7371]

That’s only since the mid 90s when Chris Cornell invited it

[@lazerouskyle]

*Me researching how to make an actual Dark-core Kyber Crystal*

[@holjascatu]

You're not the only one.

[@wane5398]

literally came here after watching a video on black kyber crystals

[@piemparade]

Wonder Man same bro

[@zenron5149]

Lazerous SAME

[@UluvNacho]

Bruh I am to I want a black light saber😂

[@L.Alchemy]

What's really interesting is that this is all very simple in concept, but still potentially difficult for some people to really wrap their heads around. Very Cool Video, Bro!

[@odinson2273]

Taking this to a philosophical level, on how the two often represent light and dark, good and evil it just goes to show they're just all opposite ends of the same coin and that perspective is what matters.

[@shinomakichuppy8236]

"Turn on the background light and your phone light become black" You mean every time I uses my phone outside in daylight lol.

[@mellamojeff458]

nice pfp

[@vinik1lo]

@@mellamojeff458 sus

[@SustainaBIT]

Lol sad reality

[@davidliu3195]

if you take your phone and look up at the sun then no

[@joeDIYz]

Daylight is not in the back

[@camruss8263]

If this guy was my science teacher I'd definitely be getting a degree in physics

[@kiraPh1234k]

Yeah? A guy who is constantly getting things wrong would lead you to a degree in physics? Or is it just his enthusiasm?

[@camruss8263]

@@kiraPh1234k Does it have to be defined? Your just a hater

[@kiraPh1234k]

@@camruss8263 Not gonna lie, I am kind of a big hater on Action Lab - because he so often gets things very wrong or bases an entire video on something wrong or just does something stupid and dangerous. Hate hate hate. Dude probably spent more than 4 hours on making this video and couldn't research enough to know that black is the *abscence* of light, and light cannot be absent of itself.

[@traviousandrews1015]

Yea its sad how many bad teachers out there can ruin careers

[@traviousandrews1015]

@@kiraPh1234k he's not saying it's not. He's just saying that what we see as black is still reflecting light. There is no true black. Smh

[@medix1203]

Perfect.... Now I can see who's stealing my TV at night

[@adnanshaqur]

bro you'll made a nicest science teacher

[@cam02493]

That’s crazy, I never really thought about how projections show black

[@Kitulous]

they don't the "black" part of a projection is the absense of illumination it's not black, it's just a not bright white and this black casts a shadow because the projector cannot fully block the light that the very powerful lamp inside a projector produces it's the same with your monitor (unless it's oled, crt or plasma): black color in a TFT monitor produces light because the liquid crystals inside a monitor cannot fully block the light from a LCD backlight

[@SpicyMang0s]

@@Kitulous nice

[@motelghost477]

Projectors show gray not black. Gray is a shade of white but black is not a shade of white because true black is the total absence of light/white.

[@nerychristian]

@@Kitulous True. I was going to say that. The reason it looks like the black has light is because of the bleeding of light from the surrounding area.

[@orlandomoreno6168]

@@motelghost477 that's an useless way to define black

[@ohihassan693]

From my childhood I always thought about this question that "do we all see the exact same red colour or do we see it just a bit different then the other but since we can't get into somebody else's head so we can not know and there is no word to describe the little differences and we don't realise it. Edit: i dont know why but if you read replies down there, you will see so many people kinda salty about this question and i have no idea why? It's just a question that i sometimes ponder about. Some tried to answer it and i didn't feel like they understood the question to begin with and then they start acting salty. If someone didn't accept your answer to their question then just move on na. Why bother so much that it makes you almost sound angry?

[@desmondhughes9143]

Yep

[@user-cz5kh8wu6b]

me too bruhhhh

[@kaylasprettynails2848]

Me too!!!

[@Kitulous]

what if my red is your green? what if my blue is the color you can't even percieve?

[@user-cz5kh8wu6b]

@@Kitulous WE NEED ANSWERS

[@erich6096]

Enlightening, no pun intended. Temperature is similar. For instance an air conditioner does not put cold into a room. It removes heat from a room resulting in cold air. So hot and cold are basically the same too. Cold is just a lot less heat.

[@kirbya9545]

I like how this was something we subconsciously knew but not consciously because of the fact we experience this all the time 💀 (i.e. going outside while the sun is out and the phone being all dark)

[@pmvoice88]

So, according to this video, that's really a white bug crawling around his screen.

[@nothingmuch1129]

Yesn’t

[@hanbigim]

@@nothingmuch1129 ikr

[@mahdi24me]

He fixed the bug!

[@whi2gan]

*dark orange

[@chrisspere4836]

Well....grey

[@marinas7094]

Everyone: mind blown over facts Me: distracted by that bug behind him

[@stevenward796]

It was a stupid bug " not bright"

[@biasreviews9670]

as soon as i saw it i came to the comments

[@pascalharrison6755]

@@biasreviews9670 same

[@funbigly]

there were at least three flies in that room

[@amr13212]

@@pascalharrison6755 same here

[@Katzka2]

Aight lets be honest every video that was made four years ago is the best thing ever

[@masscreationbroadcasts]

I was expecting this to be something cheap like UV light, but no, no, you did deliver.

[@sylvesteruchia5263]

2:10 "Black and white are just different shades of the same thing " -ActionLab/MLK

[@freddiereagan6705]

Yeah

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

@Fares Almalood perfectionist

[@raphaelkritz]

@@mayumitsuwa more perfectionist

[@dprasad1980]

@Fares Almalood he's telling he wrong meaning (not you the comment)

[@koennafzger6542]

4:07 anyone else see that bug?

[@MrBrain4]

Yes. It was a very dark shade of white.

[@PlayItAgainTubeSam]

a glitch in the background matrix

[@sandrajohnson2489]

Lol yes.

[@maggs131]

It comes back at 5:41 😬

[@cyclopslaser809]

Yep

[@Baburun-Sama]

They turned Light into Darkness? That's True Pure Physical Science!

[@janmn6910]

I'VE BEEN ASKING TO MYSELF YOUR LAST QUESTION FOR YEARS NOW I KNOW THAT I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WITH THAT QUESTION.

[@JazzyB9481]

So in summary, I learned that I'm dark orange and less white 😂😂

[@ojhudgins7326]

I'm more m i l k then light or dark orange.

[@whi2gan]

LOL, basically

[@ejenglin]

I, too, am dark orange and less white. Or, just white because black and white are the same. Or, I'm no color because color is just in my head. 🤯

[@romoney]

i learned that i'm a shade of black

[@kur0ki_]

im like a bit light and a nougat at the same time

[@wearemany73]

5:45 house fly makes grand entrances (15 mins of fame)

[@jayfeather9348]

I noticed it around 3:48 too

[@youthoughtitwasanamebutitw2202]

The man the myth the legend

[@fxrhan1442]

Lmao

[@--TOM--]

Jokes on him he's gonna be in the next experiment

[@ryanb418]

Yeah, the fly was dark white.

[@idreadFell365]

That explains why I can’t see sh*t on my phone when I’m out in the sunlight.

[@Arqade38]

This guy is answering all my 3 A.M. thoughts one by one .

[@Circuit00C]

Being color blind, I can definitely say we see colors differently. What most people don't understand is that most colorblind people can still see all the colors it's just some are really hard to tell apart.

[@minerblake7494]

I have that problem, but I passed the color blind test. I still think I have at least a color blindspot.

[@UHFStation1]

I've read color blind people can actually see camouflaged people easier.

[@agbluemetal2364]

True, in my case its just some shades of green and red

[@Circuit00C]

@@UHFStation1 that's true. I always wondered how people fall for camo until I read that. I cannot do those hidden picture things though and that might be the colorblindness as well

[@urphakeandgey6308]

@@UHFStation1 That kind of makes sense, since the camo would be designed for people with normal trichromatic vision.

[@yautja919]

So that means the universe is actually lit!😯

[@beanshrock4804]

Not exactly

[@boonxai]

@@beanshrock4804 I mean... He's kinda right but for a different reason. It's virtually impossible to find, for example, a cubic meter of space without any photons in it.

[@Uyhn26]

Look up Quantum Foam.

[@FringeWizard2]

@@Uyhn26 Quantum foam is marxist bullshit. Look up superdeterminism instead.

[@lukeorlando4814]

You’re describing subtractive colour mixing and it’s the first time in my life the “colou” black has ever made sense to me.

[@Incepter.]

Light being black is literally just a dark shadow and you cannot comprehend such a physical property with The Action Lab

[@antonismanassakis9420]

Short answer: no Long answer: no

[@dh4444]

Lol

[@Yes-dc2gm]

no u

[@frazercowan4030]

THANK YOU

[@rockapedra1130]

Improvement? Short answer: no Long answer: HELL no

[@diamondynamite]

Long answer. Black is not a color, and although it is percieved by our eyes as something visible, it is actually the absence of light, therefore it is utterly impossible. It is all an illusion depending on how we perceive it through our own eyes.

[@eclipsemoon4456]

So you're saying that MY pink, could be somebody else's BLUE?!

[@HakimJamil94]

@Yensen Connor You're confused. Hehe

[@yamarenggo1773]

Thats whats been in my mind long ago.. it still haunts me

[@3rdCataclysm]

Your profile picture has so much blue color on it

[@sphinx1072]

No

[@ajm5074]

IAMDAONE same

[@ld7561]

Me at the beginning: 🤨 Me at the end of it: 🤯

[@allen604]

"Black and white are shades of the same thing" right on, brother!

[@Yasinx63]

I got distracted half way... That Bug though!!! Was it Black?! Or was it White?! Or was it a shade of White that looks black!!!!

[@Nirvana_Replica]

Yasinx63 or was it blue, green and red? Absorbing more light than the background

[@nadiah1991]

As a child and up until now ive always questioned whether we really see the same ‘color’.. thank u for explaining that really well. Im just a lazy person who loves to be spoon fed of sciency stuff

[@ChallengeTheNarrative]

nhza ☺ you have discovered the answer ( question everything ) to which the majority of people are ignorant to and simply accept what they are told (brainwashed).

[@thr2648]

I'm ignorant! Even tho I had those thoughts too I'm ignorant

[@BubbIes_G]

Omg I love that final point I’ve been saying that for years and people just look at me confused

[@piratemonkeycode]

This type of content I pay my internet bill for 😌

[@deegee1119]

Yes! Color is different between each person. Blood sugar levels have a lot to do with the difference of color intensity that each individual perceives! I remember a while back working at a photo color print facility after lunch or break people would "over filter" and decrease contrast of prints because their blood sugar was high after lunch and they perceived color too strong...the prints came out kind of "flat"! Just the opposite happened when people were fasting or hadn't eaten for a long period...they perceived less intense color so they intensified the colors so the technician would feel they were normal, but they were very contrasty and color intense! We ended up monitoring when employees ate and had healthy snacks out and available for them to eat! Most however, preferred the little squares of snickers bars! Same goes for photoshop, and digital printing facilities!

[@ema8909]

Whoa!

[@traviousandrews1015]

Wow that's crazy

[@goobgolly2744]

That makes so much sense! I believe it's to help encourage people to eat sugary fruits. I've noticed when my blood sugar is low, fruits look really vibrant and I feel like shoveling them in my mouth, but when my sugar's really high, the opposite seems to happen.

[@TenNineD]

Is that why when I drink 6 energy drinks in a row I see colors better

[@noahwattel4226]

Seeing the same color for a prolonged time has a similar effect and you can try it yourself! Quickest way to do it is to close your eyes and cover one of them with your hand. Then look into a relatively bright light so one of your eyes starts seeing red while the other sees black. Wait for a couple seconds and turn of the light and look at a normal room with one eye at the time switch between them and you will see the one you had covered sees the reds a lot stronger then your other eye who will see everything in a more greenish tint and all the reds will be relatively weak.

[@nyct0phile]

yooOO CAN YOU NOT LMAO ITS LIKE 4AM AND I'VE LITERALLY TRIED EXPLAINING THIS TO PEOPLE ALL MY LIFE IM SO UPSET AND MINDBLOWN

[@Q75]

Same it was a random shower thought that appeared like some time ago

[@spacemandan7971]

I enjoyed your assistant, the fly in the bg. lol Cool video, very informative! Thanks! Keep it up, man! You're doing good work, here. ^_^

[@eitherrideordie]

This is so crazy, i dont know why light works so uniquely.

[@bepisthebenis5111]

“Black and white are also in our head” This man just fixed racism

[@pablorealm]

Noah Griffith not really, race is a lot more than skin color

[@giacomociccarelli3070]

Black people are white people, with just much light behind

[@Maulstrum97]

Cynicalte it wasn't the same guy. A joke is supposed to be funny.

[@Maulstrum97]

Cynicalte comedy is but i wasn't replying to him. If you read my comment his name isn't in the beginning. Noah Griffith doesn't equal Giacomo Ciccarelli.

[@Maulstrum97]

Cynicalte ok. And its fine i do that sometimes. I am more of dark humor then dry humor.

[@spreadlove8624]

That bug wanna be famous... 🤔🤔😂😂

[@user-dl8sv9nn6y]

Jacinda Lacroix which minutes

[@kaaskrekker2775]

Jacinda Lacroix exacly

[@tigerlove0803]

5:16 عبدالله خريصي

[@spreadlove8624]

عبدالله خريصي 4:02 😊😊

[@gamingesilecrafter5824]

Hey! You noticed the bug too!

[@Sophie-go3ql]

And just to prove what was just presented; "That color, is our brains' interpretation of the wavelength of light rays, that our eyes see". Back in at school many decades ago, in grade 1, colored circles were posted and we were taught the name of each color. No guarantee that we all saw the same color, but we all learned what our brain should recognize with various light wavelengths.

[@Zietoun]

I had to rewatch the last part of the video because I was so fixated on observing the insect crawling on the screen in the back 😂

[@janethilger9781]

The concept that colors for one person might not look the same to another person is something one of my friends and I thought up during free time in grade school one day "several" years ago. I didn't know there was actually people researching the concept. That's neat.

[@PxndaCakes]

Wow, same, actually. Idk why I never searched it up, but I thought it wouldn't be there and that I was just crazy. Maybe our favorite colors all appear the same, but... aren't? Idk how to say this...

[@Chevsilverado]

@@PxndaCakes Yeah it’s interesting. Yes, our brains perceive light based on frequency and there is a substantial theory behind colour which explains colour interaction, but what our brains perceive as brown or red or blue seems like it could be completely arbitrary.

[@o76923]

This specifically is not really being researched all that much these days but that's simply because the idea goes back to Aristotle, Plato, Democritus, and Empedocles. Way back then, there was debate among philosophers about whether color originated in the mind and was projected onto an object or originated in an object then was interpreted by the mind. That said, how people perceive, interpret, and communicate about colors is still being studied in linguistics and cognitive psychology. Neuro psychology also has some fun research on making impossible colors that cannot exist in nature but you can trick the brain into thinking it sees. To learn more about that research, look up "stygian blue" and "hyper green".

[@itssalamander8208]

yes! like what if my red looks like your green but we both call it red because that’s what we’ve been told is red

[@josevitorlobo517]

Well, I'm glad I'm not crazy alone lol I've thought about it many years ago also, but never really looked into it, but always love to question people about it

[@WhymeR]

2018: Dark light 2020: Light dark

[@krasava16]

g r e y .

[@kingzcomparison3683]

Grey

[@alvislarson7853]

g r e y.

[@nightmaric6432]

g r e y .

[@FedEx867]

g r e y .

[@Marco_My_Words]

So, "blackness" on a screen or in a projection is essentially a very dark gray that is so dark it appears to be black?

[@SpaceshipX74]

"We can never know the color that someone is actually seeing because color is just in our heads." I have thought about that before, a few times actually, and when you said it, it was sort-of an 'I'M NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO HAS THESE KIND OF THOUGHTS' moment.

[@illushaa]

color is in our head.......me as an watercolor artist : whole life was lie

[@peterrivney552]

No not really got washed up ...

[@dandywaysofliving]

*Looks at patterns... What is that

[@SanaSakana]

Me ; Just pick a rainbow colour already..

[@tejaswagadre2014]

Your drawing are beautiful❤

[@radidraiyan548]

It,s actually true. Different animals see same colors different.because of structure of how much light can get through it,s cornea.

[@AvaneeshSrivastava-lm5vj]

Shocking that the action lab doesn't have a minimum of 5 million subscribers ...... one of the BEST youtube channel for all ages. 😃

[@MandMs05]

He doesn't sub-bot. That's why. Nobody actually gets these large amounts of subscribers superfast without sub bots.

[@justjared1410]

Avaneesh Srivastava it's bcs his voice is annoying no offense

[@AdamaxEP]

He is almost to 1 million!

[@Billy-rr7re]

most people just want to watch the kardashians. that is the reality of the world

[@MandMs05]

Maybe to you. I thought it was a little strange at first, but really it's just unique and I don't get out much. XD Also, adding no offense doesn't make it any less offensive.

[@prasadshopte7595]

Great point, “how can we be sure we are seeing same color”, what I see yellow could be perceived by someone else as different shade of yellow or even a different color.

[@SurfSkateAdventures]

In my opinion the Sith Lightsaber should have black light in the core, with maybe a tinge of red around it.

[@GeorgeGeorgeOnly]

"Black is white, and white is black, and gets run over on the next zebra crossing." Douglas Adams - Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

[@seanleith5312]

On that note: he said color is just something in our head, that's wrong. Imagine that's right, then sweet and bitter is also something in our head? NO. Even though the sensation of colors, or tastes may be different among different people, but they have confirmed among billions of people that the same thing tastes bitter, it also tastes bitter to other people, as to what bitterness really feels like to any individual person is largely irrelevant. To go even further, how it feels tasting something bitter is probably the same among people. I know that because people use language to describe it, that's very much the same.

[@whi2gan]

@@seanleith5312 I came here to laugh at the original comment, but what you said is just so true!👏👏

[@user-kd1uh1kr4b]

@@seanleith5312 how can u be so sure? It's still in our heads anyway :(

[@Chevsilverado]

@@seanleith5312 Colour is the emission of a photon when an electron gets knocked up to a higher orbital and then falls back down. Our eyes are sensitive to photons but our brain 100% translates that into an image that we see in our heads. It’s been proven that people perceive colours and shades differently from each other, and that’s because of the differences in how our brains perceive the light. We aren’t seeing actual light when we see what’s around us, we are seeing what our brain interprets from photons coming in to our eyes based on wavelengths. The end result is the same, but colour isn’t inherent in our universe, it’s only what our brain interprets it to be.

[@some-one-else]

@@seanleith5312 That's still all in our heads, it just so happens that we are all human and therefore have fairly similar brains, thus we tend to find the same things bitter. You have no evidence that we taste things the same way. Using similar words is just evidence that our language teaches us how to describe our experiences in the exact same way.

[@DapperDanLovesYou]

As far as the "We can never know if we see the same color as everyone else," you can, at the very least, know that it's hue shifted and not random. Or rather: all people with good vision and without color-blindness can fairly accurately "order" colors/ hues in sequence. So even if one person's red is another person's blue, ALL of the colors are equally shifted to match the same hue transitions (like adjusting a hue slider across an entire photo).

[@Rudxain]

That's partially true. Remember, the human eye uses 3 "big blocks" of color for the entire range of visible light. This means color cones (photoreceptors) can be swapped. This also means that if someone has red and green swapped (blue intact), yellow will still look the same and will still be located at the same wavelength in the spectrum. If all cones were shuffled, some secondary colors would swap with other secondaries. This color swapping can only be done physically, because it requires "incorrect" neural connections of cones. The hue shift you were mentioning, can only be achieved purely in the brain because the brain is the one processing the color spectrum and making assumptions (bias)

[@DapperDanLovesYou]

​@@Rudxain Indeed! Hence my mentioning of "good"/ healthy vision :)

[@minerblake7494]

@@Rudxain I'm not sure about that because we're being taught rules to name the colors, so unless the swapping occurs after the learning process, or perhaps a "return to normal" occurs, we'd be taught that red is blue and so on, and only by reconciliation with the spectrum would we know any difference. We assume color looks the same for each of us, but that doesn't account for why we find some colors more attractive than others, favorite color for example, and some people don't have a favorite. Or why I can't see gold in the dress on the screen. I thought it might be a screen adjustment, but my wife can see it. I might be color blind and don't know it. What's even more intriguing is that we're now engaging in debates over whether light is a particle or wave, and it could be both. Or we could be just plain wrong. They're also adding field to the debate.

[@Rudxain]

@@minerblake7494 Exactly, I agree. And you can check if you're colorblind by looking at 3 RGB bars: 1. Open some paint program and create a rectangle set to #FF0000, then another as #00FF00, then #0000FF. 2. Now you should have 3 rectangles with max saturation. Green should be the brightest, followed by Red, then Blue. This happens because blue cone sensitivity is lower than the other cones. If you see a very bright blue, then your display is bad *OR you're tetrachromat.* 3. If you aren't convinced, test the same image on multiple displays of different technologies (LCD, LED, OLED, QLED, Plasma, and CRT), with all "special settings" disabled (image "correction" reduces fidelity by applying a bias). And also use secondary colors (yellow, cyan, and magenta)

[@minerblake7494]

@@Rudxain Pretty smart, I'll try it thanks.

[@DrunkenUFOPilot]

Brown light is one of my favorite topics in color theory.

[@quantumfineartsandfossils2152]

I think it's time people realize you your wife's work & your smiling all the time observing fundamental phenomena are why you are so popular your work keeps people healthy!!! Here's to another 4.61 MILLION followers!!!!

[@francoisscala417]

The ultimate black is the total absence of light. Your projector does not project black light but a small amount of light, filtered by the LCD panels. And those LCD panels can't filter the light totally. This is why you still can see some light on the darker area. This is also why DLP exists.

[@andif.izdiharuddien9372]

Thank you !

[@Terrorist939]

And also why it isn't "black light", but just a shade of gray. People sometimes forget how to brain.

[@hasansawan4970]

Francois Scala I scrolled down to the comments to see the LCD/ DLP note.. Thank you ... I'd mention also that the first trick about the light panel & the phone ,, the phone turn to black as result of lack in dynamic range of the camera in this extreme scenario. Or/and because the 'auto' exposure option in the camera which adjust according to the brightest object.

[@Azide_zx]

ultimate black is the total absence of light, while the percieved "black" is the relative absence of light to the surroundings

[@Azide_zx]

Alex939 there is no "grey light" either, it's just a dimmer white

[@Mark_5150]

The phone in front of the brighter screen isn't producing blacklight, its just the exposure of the camera (or a human eye) adjusting itself to the brighter light. If you are outside on a sunny day and look across the street into your neighbors house windows you can't see inside because there is less light and your eyes can't focus on the rooms inside, but your neighbors can see just fine in their house. And at night, you can see into your neighbors lit house but they can't see you out in the dark because their eyes are exposed to the brighter light. Yet, if they walk out onto their porch they would see you just fine.

[@Raphaelo244]

This comment needs more likes.

[@dhanarputra555]

It's how camera aperture works.

[@errolhubilla911]

So If I would murder somebody I should do it in nightime so that they wouldn't see me outside ready to kill them. Thanks great tip.

[@deadman593]

Mark G stop sneaking or stalmi g your neighbor s

[@yeti9268]

Mango Rage not fully exactly,you would need to wear all black to actually not stand out less, black clothes tend to absorb everything around them, so if you were to wear white clothes that reflect everything to give off the color white they would reflect from other colors such as roygbiv (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) this will make you stand out much more as other colors around you would want to reflect with your white clothes, therefore wearing black would be the best choice because it'll want to absorb the colors around you, if you were to wear any other colors like orange it'll try to reflect to orange rays so it can turn out to be orange just like red it'll want to reflect to red rays so it'll look out red, you see if I were you I would wear black

[@thtkk]

I have never been this much illuminated for months oh my god

[@simolatham03]

I love the fly revealing your cut lol

[@intothecalm420]

The most interesting part of the video was watching the spider on the white screen about to attack him.

[@jasrajdhanjal]

Crawl IntoTheCalm i was looking for this comment 😂😂

[@tushartiwari7667]

But when did the spider attacked him

[@jeffypuppetmaster3454]

Tushar Tiwari VLOGS 3:48 or you can just freaking watch the video like a normal person

[@pav_pab]

Crawl IntoTheCalm That smol bean was hella cute xd

[@meowrchl97]

You mean the black screen.

[@outrage_swampert979]

There is a bug behind you! Quick, catch it and make him pull some weights!

[@nickbarton9738]

ive been questioning that to people for years! my wife just blow me off but im over here freaking out about the fact that you can never explain a color to a blind person and we can never be sure were seeing the same color!

[@jonathansturm4163]

When I was 4 years old in 1955 I asked my mother “Why is red?” and can still recall her frustration because the question was unanswerable and mine because she wouldn’t.

[@ch.illmatic]

I'm just watching the bug in the background😂😂😂

[@derekthemagician]

#metoo

[@christophersonlevi]

Who wasnt

[@liciying]

It teleports, too

[@ch.illmatic]

@@liciying those are the edits

[@nishu2001]

Where?

[@castlehill6717]

6:08 is a question I have had since I was around 8 years old. Definitely still fascinating to think about 22 years later. "How do I know that my understanding of the color 'Red' (for example) is the same as Jimmy's understanding of the color Red? What if his 'Red' is my 'Blue'? Or something else entirely which I could never even imagine?"

[@paulbrocklehurst3639]

Butr there is no 'red' in your head anyway because colours are simply fictions the brain lies to us about although there is a difference in wavelengths of light which our retinas message the brain about & then the brain makes up a fiction based on that data. If I were ask you to forget about wavelength difference between yellow & blue & state how they are any different all we can say is that red looks red & yellow looks yellow to us but there is no experience of either as such, only an illusion of each one. This is why some people think they see a yellow & black dress & others think they see a black & blue dress since there really isn't any colour there at all only wavelengths interpreted as total fictions. If they weren't fictions we would be able to say what makes the experience of yellow different to the experienc of blue but we can't so we say yellow looks yellow & blue looks blue because we can't think of anything meaningful to say about the mature of each experience. That wouldn't be the case if the experience of colours was real rather than fiction.

[@ashtondsouza7545]

That is true we could have same names for different colors according to different people but they would have to be the same intensity which makes it very hard

[@silentgamer8139]

@@ashtondsouza7545 Look at his likes lol

[@evv.n1211]

I'm not the only one?

[@romanvice]

Vsauce's video. Check it out.

[@matthewkf]

I don't know if it's just me but it's confusing and makes sense at the same time

[@Nightking069]

I have something in my head, like your projecter experiment what if we watch the screen from a mirror placed at side of projector and try to watch that black ⚫ , it will look black (I think) but it will look black also when looking from mirror to screen so what about while light?

[@Karaskent]

3:50 man, there is a spider behind you above your head

[@mikevanin1]

Beetle

[@kwakhru435]

Lmao

[@conz1842]

Lol

[@chaoticfairy8126]

It's good luck

[@dianisd4908]

A fly

[@generalwolf35gaming]

“White” light is all frequencies of light. “Black” is the absence of light. The “black” light happened because you over powered it with the surrounding light. The outer white light (in a sense) took center of attention, causing the inner light to be black.

[@dasun13]

Yeah. I assume that it's when you try and look at your cell phone screen on a very bright day outside. It becomes virtually black. White black

[@generalwolf35gaming]

Ya. Another example is looking into a window of a house in a sunny day from a little ways off. It is really hard to see inside. There is light exiting the window (from inside) and hitting your eye, but the light bouncing off the house’s outer wall are taking up all that you see.

[@lordsheerakxd4066]

Not exactly. You can have darkness but still have it be flooded by non-visible light. Inferred or ultra violet lights are still part of the light spectrum, but they are not visible to humans.

[@anyanwu6233]

You can say ''Black is the absence of visible light''. Don't say light is not there just because you can't see it

[@qsquared8833]

Yeah, Shadow is a true black, and Vantablack is the blackest black. Any shade of color can fade to black, it's a function of luminessense, and occlusion, or absorption of light. Black when back-lit is a thing, and is NOT strictly a function of surrounding light circumstance, it is also a function of eye sensitivity and wavelength. To see what I mean, use any back-lit LCD or LED display. We've all seen the TV, Monitor, or Cell phone displaying black but "know" its on, and if its dark enough you can slightly illuminate a room with their light in pitch black depending on the quality of their contrast's "blackness" function.

[@Mr.wither_storm]

Do you get a different colour depending on what order you mix the colors? Like first yellow and mix in a bit of orange then add blue. Would the results be the same if I just smashed them all together but the same amounts?

[@windfire5380]

In your projector experiment: In seeing your shadow in the black circle of the projection, I think that experiment is simply experiencing a) the inefficiency of the projector, and b) perhaps some diffusion of light through the atmosphere. FYI, this is related to why OLED TVs do better with black then LED LCD counterparts. OLED emits zero (or near zero light) while the LED LCD can't make a pure black because of washout of the technology. Black is the absence of light. The "black" you see on the projector is just shades of grey that want to be black but can't with that technology. :) I do appreciate your point on the fact we can't be certain if we all interpret the wavelengths of visible light the same internally in our brains. Fascinating.

[@FreeZeOpZ]

Man, I’m staring to think you’re secretly Vsauce’s long lost brother. You really make me question reality sometimes.

[@deepakkonka]

ya

[@getcaughtin4klol752]

Yup

[@adeel.designer]

You mean the true formula is: B=Brightness put into phrase, (Black is a lack of B)

[@jackoplumkin6412]

This is genius.

[@saadaqmaxamd3351]

🤣

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

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[@jackrivera4398]

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[@michaelchancey5505]

So glad you saw that dress as white and gold too.

[@potatable325]

Everyone: *learns about colors*. Me: *wonders if anybody else saw the bug on his white green screen thingy* 5:13