2006-06-12 10:30:38 · 27 answers · asked by firefox 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The speed of light is only defined as a positive number.
There is no inverse of light speed - no "negative" light speed.
The speed of "dark" is undefined, since anything times nothing is undefined.
All you can do is state how fast light moves out of a location once its source is discontinued.
By the way, saying that "everything has an opposite" is a false statement.
However, I can see a case for considering that there may actually be a phenomenon of dark spreading at alarming speed, namely the Republican Party.
2006-06-12 10:44:24 · answer #1 · answered by Bender 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
What you need to understand this is a cricket bat (or a baseball bat will do just as well).
Take the bat and hit yourself over the head with it 10 times, but not too hard, don't want to do yourself any damage (well, okay the 10th as hard as you like)
In between each hit say to yourself "Dark is a privative. It describes the absence of something. How can it have a speed?"
Maybe by the end you'll be clear on the topic.
Seriously, no.
Dark is a word we invented so that we wouldn't have to say "its not light". Since its a concept, it doesn't have a speed. It doesn't really exist in its own right.
There are lots or privatives out there, most opposites have something real and something conceptual, and we use both as if they were "real" forgetting that one of them isn't.
2006-06-14 05:58:46 · answer #2 · answered by The_Otter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The opposite of speed of light is the slowness of darkness.
2006-06-12 11:03:32 · answer #3 · answered by Thermo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before I answer your question, let me first explain to you how the theory of antimatter works, The theory of antimatter states that every particles in the world have it's own antimatter. For example, the antimatter of an electron is a protron, or positive electron, while a proton's antimatter is a negavite protons. Since light is made of particles called photons, light does not have a negative or positive photond as its antimatter. Instead, the antimatter of a photon is the photon itself.
Going back to your question, speed of dark does not exist! It doesn't exist because if you do, then you have to accept that dark is made of a special particle that only exist in it. If you do, well, problems occur. I won't tell you right now why it can't dark have its own special particle because there's not enough research to back it up.
2006-06-12 12:54:05 · answer #4 · answered by Nico 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I answered this question just a couple of days ago.
The speed of dark must be exactly the same as the speed of light, becuase the light is always chasing the darkness, but never seems to catch it.
2006-06-12 10:39:23 · answer #5 · answered by Dave_Stark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Light has an opposite, but there is no speed of darkness.
2006-06-12 11:35:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
since the dark takes over the light once the ligt pasess trough the dark then the dark is dragged over by the force of the light,then the dark comes back and places where there was light so the dark is or may be as fast as light so yes,maybe,probably,ask god,or a scientist,why do u think i know?which i do
2006-06-12 10:33:58 · answer #7 · answered by ◄ZΨΦИ► 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not everything has an opposite, but the velocity of light does, and I can't think of a better name for it than the velocity of dark.
Also, the velocity of light is only constant in a vacuum.
Its a vector isn't it. speed and direction?
2006-06-12 10:39:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess you could say that the speed of dark is the stopping speed of light. You can measure it with the refrigerator door.
2006-06-12 10:36:06 · answer #9 · answered by Ray 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No because dark is when the light goes out
2006-06-18 08:58:12 · answer #10 · answered by marshman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋