Re: black Re: Possible evidence for Stone Age (Clovis) Cosmic Catastrophe?

Apparently on date Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:55:12 +1300, Eric Stevens
<eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> said:

>On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 04:51:00 GMT, Philip Deitiker
><Donevenask@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>In sci.archaeology message news:dkh5h10h10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx by
>>"Tedd Jacobs" <Jacobs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> . . . :
>>
>>>
>>> "Philip Deitiker" wrote...
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>> ... The universe is
>>>> not black and white, black does not exist, [...]
>>>
>>> [Stevens mode= on]
>>>
>>> metaphically speaking, black does exist, it exists as the
>>> absence of color, which makes it something rather than nothing,
>>> and something cannot *not* exist.
>>>
>>> [Stevens mode= off]
>>> [Wilkins filter= on]
>>
>>Well we say people are black, but have you ever seen a 'black'
>>person. Even if you have something that is pure black, use a
>>infrared detector and it will light up like a christmas tree.
>>Even the background of space is color in the microwave range.
>
>Even 'black holes' have a temperature and emit radiation.

It would probably be more accurate to say that space emits radiation in the
vicinity of an event horizon.

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