Where does black fall on the color spectrum? – Utsav, age 17, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India People love the rainbow of ROYGBIV colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.

This is what gives us the huge richness of colour in our world when there’s only the simple spectrum of the rainbow ... black, and even blue. When these are all mixed together, you just see ...

“It has no justification in experiment exactly; it just represents something that he’s imposing upon the color spectrum by analogy with music.” Of his rainbow experiment Newton wrote that he had ...

One could pattern the sequence after the ordering of visible light by wavelength (remembered by the mnemonic ROYGBIV), but use of this color spectrum is inherently problematic. The transitions ...