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Hey guys, I'm wondering how come if we're in a completely dark room and shine a laser beam at an object, we see the color of the laser beam (say it's red). How is this consistent with the the theory that objects appear a certain color since that is the frequency of light that they reflect? For example only "red" objects reflect red light and thus look red but a blue object does NOT reflect red, thus it is blue. But in the case of the red laser light, if we shine it at any object of any normal color in a dark room, it still reflects some of the red light. I'm quite puzzled even though there's probably a very simple answer. Someone please enlighten me :)