What happens to the white after the snow melts? (carry, million, working)
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Seriously, I've often heard that colors (or something) can neither be created nor destroyed and yet, when the snow turns to water it is clear. What's up with that and why isn't anyone working on this?
Snow is white because snow is actually millions of tiny ice mirrors that reflect the sunlight back out in total without breaking it down into colors like a prism.Hence, white light in,white light out.
Colors are constantly being destroyed, because "color" is nothing but the frequency of reflected light. Color is destroyed by simply switching off a light bulb.
Next, you can wonder why you get a rust color when you put iron and oxygen together, since rust is composed of nothing but those two colorless elements. Table salt is a gray metal and a green gas combined. Think about qualitative analysis in a chemical lab, where you put a transparent colorless liquid into a transparent colorless liquid and get a vivid, brilliantly colored precipitate.
A color isn't a physical object, it's how a light wave is reflected by a physical object, received by your eyes and interpreted by your brain.
Yes it is, according to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (made famous by Click and Clack). Light has wave-particle duality. So what happens to the light particles that carry white information, when the snow melts?
Yes it is, according to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (made famous by Click and Clack). Light has wave-particle duality. So what happens to the light particles that carry white information, when the snow melts?
They are just not reflected back off the ground as well as they are the snow.Nothing "happens" to them.They just continue on their original course unreflected once snow is gone.
Seriously, I've often heard that colors (or something) can neither be created nor destroyed and yet, when the snow turns to water it is clear. What's up with that and why isn't anyone working on this?
At first, your eye is seeing the light reflected by the snow. When it melts, whatever the snow was covering is now reflecting the light into your eye. Still the same light but different reflection.
Well, if you don't know the answer just say so, there are plenty of other enlightened people on here that can provide insight to this.
By the way, I did try to dig into this further. Thinking the white may have sunk down into the yard, I got out a shovel and made a hole about four-feet deep thinking the white would have been down there. Other than what smelled like snow-mold in the first inch or two, no white stuff was to be found. I may have waited too long and it has sunk down deeper by now or it may have to do with that refracted light science stuff.
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