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Topic: What is darkness?
Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Mon 02/13/12 12:09 PM
Btw, i never thought to define darkness or light. What is light? I seriously dont know. What is it made up of? Naming it a "photon" does not really tell you what it is. Light is a vibration. What it is and how it vibrates is a good question.

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Mon 02/13/12 12:11 PM
wiki: Light or visible light is electromagnetic radiation that is visible to the human eye, and is responsible for the sense of sight.[1] Visible light has wavelength in a range from about 380 nanometres to about 740 nm, with a frequency range of about 405 THz to 790 THz. In physics, the term light sometimes refers to electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength, whether visible or not. Primary properties of light are intensity, propagation direction, frequency or wavelength spectrum, and polarisation, while its speed in a vacuum, 299,792,458 meters per second (about 300,000 kilometers per second), is one of the fundamental constants of nature. Light, which is emitted and absorbed in tiny "packets" called photons, exhibits properties of both waves and particles. This property is referred to as the wave–particle duality. The study of light, known as optics, is an important research area in modern physics.

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Mon 02/13/12 12:13 PM
Perhaps darkness is also electromagnetic radiation but not the kind we can see.

Bushidobillyclub Joined Fri 05/11/07 Posts: 5689	Mon 02/13/12 01:58 PM Edited by Bushidobillyclub on Mon 02/13/12 02:00 PM
What is light? Light is awesome, it pays my bills. Light is the energetic interaction between electric and magnetic fields. Perhaps darkness is also electromagnetic radiation but not the kind we can see. If it were it would have vast ramifications which are just not seen . . . ie its not.

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Mon 02/13/12 02:01 PM Edited by Jeanniebean on Mon 02/13/12 02:02 PM
What is light? Light is awesome, it pays my bills. Light is the energetic interaction between electric and magnetic fields. Perhaps darkness is also electromagnetic radiation but not the kind we can see. If it were it would have vast ramifications which are just not seen . . . ie its not. Can all radiation be seen as light? If not, how is it seen and detected? How does light pay your bills?

Bushidobillyclub Joined Fri 05/11/07 Posts: 5689	Mon 02/13/12 02:09 PM
Can all radiation be seen as light? All radiation is either light of various wavelengths or particle decay from the weak force. Most wavelengths of light cannot be seen with the human eye, the cells in our eyes are just not sensitive to most frequencies. How does light pay your bills? I work in radiology!

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Mon 02/13/12 06:08 PM
Light and shadow pay my bills. I work in art.

OIF_Chef Joined Mon 12/26/11 Posts: 541	Tue 02/14/12 12:13 AM
I work under fluorescent light in an excruciatingly hot kitchen. Blood, sweat and profanity pay my bills.

tribo Joined Mon 05/12/08 Posts: 5577	Wed 02/22/12 10:24 PM
Btw, i never thought to define darkness or light. What is light? I seriously dont know. What is it made up of? Electromagnetic radition.

AdventureBegins Joined Tue 04/10/07 Posts: 7666	Fri 02/24/12 08:37 PM
Perhaps darkness is also electromagnetic radiation but not the kind we can see. Perhaps darkness is simply mass occluding the propagating EM fields.

khiwarrior Joined Sun 04/01/12 Posts: 434	Sun 04/08/12 02:04 PM
We know that light exists. What is darkness? absence of light

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Sun 04/08/12 02:50 PM
We know that light exists. What is darkness? absence of light That has been stated a few times.

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Sun 04/08/12 02:51 PM
If light did not exist, and never existed, what is darkness?

MrBiscuit Joined Tue 05/17/11 Posts: 1996	Sun 04/08/12 02:54 PM
In most cases, light is heat, dark is cold :P

MrBiscuit Joined Tue 05/17/11 Posts: 1996	Sun 04/08/12 02:56 PM
If light did not exist, and never existed, what is darkness? Looking backwards, is never looking forward

khiwarrior Joined Sun 04/01/12 Posts: 434	Mon 04/09/12 01:17 AM
everything exists in duality in the universe....there cannot be one without the other...they are part of the same whole

Footlover456 Joined Thu 04/12/12 Posts: 4	Wed 06/06/12 01:17 PM
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. Terry Pratchett Darkness is therefore what exists before the light

Ladylid2012 Joined Sun 07/05/09 Posts: 42269	Wed 06/06/12 01:39 PM
Light is knowledge and information.... darkness is the lack of knowledge and information. jmho

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Wed 06/06/12 06:07 PM
Light is knowledge and information.... darkness is the lack of knowledge and information. jmho Good one. Light is a frequency. Dark is lack of or a lower frequency.

Conrad_73 Joined Sat 09/29/07 Posts: 22488	Tue 07/17/12 02:56 AM
anti-Photons!