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For the eye to percieve an object as white, the object
must reflect all colors (or close to). A surface capable of reflecting all colors must be void in color itself, any color would hinder all color light to be reflected and thus would not create white percieved by our eye's. In respect to this it would be possible to create 100% black only with a surface containing all colors; this being the only way to prevent any color from being reflected back to the beholder. Most easily made mistake is to relate the concept of dark being the absence of light. This is correct, yet understand that in complete dark (the absence of light)our eyes could not percieve white or black simply because no light is present to be reflected off a "white" or "black" object and be recieved by our eye's. With that said it can be understood that rationaly the only way possible to create a visual hue considered black would be to have all hues present which causes the affect our eyes "percieve" as an absence simply because humans relate it what they believe as a similar occurence the absence of light,[incorrect considereing the very fundemental neccesity of color is light]. light of course does contain all colors which why when passed thru a prism would create all colors. Colors we see our simply a degree of how much of this color present in light is reflected. So does it not seem correct or pluasible to believe that the only matter in which to obtain "white" is to have a surface with such complete reflection that every color is reflected and seen. What color is a mirror. We see all colors yet a mirror contains none, and we see all colors only because it contains none. It is this complete absence of color in a mirror or "white" which enables a surface to be completely reflective . It is this concept where the conflict lies, to see all colors in a surface none must be present, yet to perceive no color at all, all must be present. If we can put a black object in a mirrior and see it's reflection as it really is then why can we not see the reflection of a mirror in a black object, even the light reflected off the mirror would be absorbed into the black object, not because it contains no color to reflect it contains too much to be reflective. So what color is a mirror, it's none; exactly
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