What if the universe lost its color?

[The Soldier 2,044]

All the colors are gone and a replaced by nothing but black, white, and shades.

 

How would you react if that actually happened? Would you go mad?

[Scootalove 10,689]

Not really. The universe is basically filled with stars, planets, and other forms of science out there. Even if we lost the color of the universe, we wouldn't really care unless your a scientist.

[BeatrixBow 119]

I would freak. I mean, who doesn't love color? I would first go into a depression, get used to it, then probably go mad. Everyone would look the same, dress the same, basically look the same. BORRRINNGGGGG! I would die. 

[MagicalStarRain 599]

Being an artist, I would be super depressed that I can't create colorful wok anymore. Plus, I'd really hate to look like everybody else!

[Just some guy 1,070]

I'd go out and buy those new-fangled color correction glasses for colorblind people.

 

Then proceed to cry as I wasted about $500 on glasses that don't work.

[Toxic Widow 62]

As a wise band called My Chemical Romance once wrote,

"But the words get lost when we all look the same."

 

 

I would make myself look different than everyone else and try and be as unique as possible. Then go into a depression and eventually commit suicide if everything was black, white, and all variations of the two.

[~Chaotic Fireball~ 499]

One day, I was home from school since I was sick, and this old movie was on tv. Without anything else to watch, I looked the black and white thing, and every minute my eyes would go all blurry and watery. It was horribly awkward for my eyes that are used to color. I expect that if teh universe lost all its color, it would feel the same way, only worse. At least my mind and dreams would have color.

[NightOwl 912]

I'd be pretty saddened if this happened. 

 

I probably wouldn't look at the universe the same way.

 

There are some pretty incredible colorful things in space that I'd greatly miss. 

[Boop 102]

I'd have to speculate if the universe would either have to be white or black.  It couldn't be just one shade that wouldn't make too much sense to me, but you may agree.

 

Originally, I would have to assume the universe is the shade black. The stars around the universe create color. Depending on it's age of course. We'd also have to include reflections of light that bounce off planets, moons, or other space oriented objects. The universe has to be black, but I can't say for sure. If you've ever seen one of those Astronomy videos you've seen the Big Bang Theory where it starts white.

 

So... can't really decide what color would be, but it would be quite depressing. A world without color... such a horrible thing to think about. O_o

[WingMcCallister 368]

lol This would have been a good post for my Ask a Particle Physicist thread. Long story short, if color ceased to exist it would mean one of two things. 1) We just couldn't perceive wavelengths, and nothing would really change, or 2) wavelengths ceased to exist and we'd be fubard.

 

Color really amounts to perception, so things wouldn't really change very much except to say we'd have far fewer adjectives. ;P 

 

It also would depend as to whether or not we were aware of the change. 

[Virulence 254]

I would go insane. No color means... no rainbows of sunshine! We need color to emphasize the difference of each thing in the world. We wouldn't know if the sun or moon was out, or what season it would be. We. Need. Absolute. Color!

[Nohbdy 4,108]

Oh, so that's how the world looked back in the 1930s! But seriously, it would be pretty trippy. If color suddenly disappeared, I would initially think that my vision was screwed up. Upon inquiry, however, I'd find out that others had the same problem. The news would be reporting global colorblindness or physical loss of color, scientists would be trying to determine what was going on, and the Internet would be flooded with information, or lack thereof. Color-coded signals such as traffic lights would become useless. Deaths would occur. There would be chaos, and lots of it. Mass panic is guaranteed.

 

And we will no longer have colorful ponies.

 

 

[TheFabulousPony 102]

I would most likely become very depressed. I mean really.. colour is great.. It would suck being a dog haha I mean... seriously. Waking up to just grey... I would be dead inside.

[PonyzzFTW 8]

It would be very bad.Losing all the colors, it would feel like being blind.With the question "What if the universe lost its color?" i don't expect a black and white world because black and white are colors too so everyone would be blind and nopony could interact with eachother.

[Lisa 5,553]

I would not give one solitary fuck. xD

 

I don't mind, in fact white is my 2nd favourite colour. (I know white is actually a tone, but....bleh. I don't care) My first is lavender, but anyway, no colour doesn't matter. Colour isn't exactly something we truly need.

 

(Throughout my post, I have a wiggly red line under "Colour"..... blast your imperial spelling.)

[Victoria and Co. 782]

Well, technically color may not even be real as we can only claim that it is an individualized mental construct existing to help us understand and comprehend our surroundings.

 

In short, the universe could very well already be colorless and it is only by the grace of the human mind that we see them.

Edited April 28, 2013 by Victoria and Co.

[Circadian 1,273]

I wouldn't be very happy if the universe lost its color. Not even dogs like having dog vision, and they're dogs.

 

They like everything.

[NeuroTypical 64]

Actually, this already happened back a few decades ago.  Our minds just learned how to interpret the bazillion shades of grey in our lives as colors.  This explains color TV and photography.

[Estella 88]

Off topic: The first thing that came to my mind was Discord. Now onto topic.

 

I believe that if the world were to lose it's color, people would change drastically. Color is what brings clarity and feeling into people's lives, such as how an artist uses different colors to portray emotions or shading, which adds realism and, once more; clarity to the artwork.

 

Without color, people would go into a depression, or perhaps maybe anger. A person who turns blind at the age of 20 doesn't like being blind, do they?

 

In all realism and logic, people wouldn't enjoy having a lack of color. Like how people wouldn't enjoy not being able to hear, smell, or touch things. It's one of our senses that aren't 'officially a sense', because of the enjoyment it brings us. On a full manner, it wouldn't affect us too much, but because humans use colors to portray things with emotions and feeling, it would effect us.

 

A few examples: A strawberry isn't a strawberry if it's not red. We would be able to tell the difference between a lemon and an orange. We wouldn't be able to see light, other than a slight difference in brightness, in which case, sight would probably be down the drain entirely.

[hawkflame 3,310]

Well, for starters, Rainbow Dash would be 20% less cool.

 

Pinkie Pie would be called "Grayie Pie".

 

And the world would just be a much more depressing place in general.

[Domnopalus 19]

Strange question!  I doubt you'll have to worry about that though, being that color is actually wavelengths.  Wavelengths I believe are a result of the basic, basic particles (atoms, quarks, and particularly photons) that build up the matter. So if color was lost, it would mean the base particles changed, and thus the whole universe would probably become unstable.  There is a MUUUUUUUUUUUCH more technical/scientific explanation for color which I am not elaborating on here, but that's the extreme basics of it I think.  Now something that COULD happen is we could all go colorblind...mysteriously.  It would be about the ability of the rods/cones in our eyes and our brain to perceive color.  And that wouldn't be nice at all!  But I'd take that over being blind any day, that's for sure.

Edited April 30, 2013 by Domnopalus

[Midnight Dragon 264]

I'd have a panic attack. Especially if blue and purple were gone. I like black, but I can't live without blue and purple. I need blue and purple

[Azaxx 111]

I'd cry for a million years, I can't live a happy life without my favourite colour, yellow.

If it were to happen, it would be the worse nightmare ever to occur.

[Mr. White 71]

In a situation where I lost the ability to see color, I would live in a very depressed state of existence indeed. However, the pleasure of having seen color at all in the past would have been able to drag me through life.

[Twiliscael 3,960]

I do love my colors, trust me. However, would it really be THAT bad? I mean, it wouldn't affect me in any way really. Colors are pretty and help us discern things from other ones. Without it, the world would certainly be a bit more dreary but we'd all get used to it, don't you think? I think it's ridiculous that some people would get depressed or something over it.