Where does darkness come from?

Question

We know where the light comes form but from whence is the dark? (And I'm not talking about some sort of rock band!)

Although most people seem to be saying that darkness is the absense of light it doesn't answer the question. Light comes from sources of energy. You don't take away the source of energy to create darkness. It was there already. Think pre-big bang

Answer 1

It sounds from the clarification you posted that by 'darkness' you mean utter voidness - space without anything.

The answer that seems to come from the cosmologists is that space and time themselves came into being with the big-bang. What 'banged' was not something in space, but was what expanded to be space and everything within it.

So if by 'dark' you mean the void when everything else is removed, the answer would be that it came from the big bang. Appropriately enough the answer really leaves you in the dark.

Answer 2

The guy above my post is wrong. All colors mixed together make bright light. An object looks dark when the light that fals on it, is not reflected, but completely absorbed by the object.
You may not want to hear it again, but darkness is the absence of light. Light are particles, called photons. Where there are no photons (within a certain frequency range), you don't see light. You don't need to have a source to make nothing.
You want people to think pre-big-bang. There still is no reasonable scientific concept of a pre-big-bang universe, so you are asking to answer and explain the impossible.

Answer 3

Darkness is an absence of light, in the same way that cold is an absence of heat.

Darkness is observed when little or no light is being reflected from certain places.


ADDITIONAL

Serious, darkness doesn't come from anywhere. Pre Big Band there was nothing to emit, absorb or reflect light so the concept of light and dark is meaningless.
Just think of dark as the blank canvas upon which we can paint the universe. But.. but don't ask where the canvas came from.
I do see what youre asking, but you do need to come around to the concept that darkness is NO light.

Answer 4

Think about it another way. The use of the every day term 'light' means that part of the electromagnetic spectrum that causes a nervous impulse when it lands on the retina of the eye. The retinas of different animals are sensitive to different wave lengths. Some animals can see beyond what humans see as red at one end of the spectrum and violet. What colour they see or perceive is, of course, a matter for our conjecture. So, here we have a dilemma. These animals see and there is light there, but humans don't so we think it is dark. This brings us to the conclusion that dark is simply no electromagnetic radiation as others have pointed out. But dark must also be defined as the absence of electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength that cannot be perceived or seen by the appropriate animal.

Answer 5

You can not generate darkness. Once energy has been absorbed into an object and is not reflected there is darkness. A visit down a mine and turn out the lights shows this. The light does not forever bounce around. It is absorbed and darkness ensues.

Answer 6

Darkness don't come from anything.
Contrary to popular belief, pure or total darkness does not exist, because some small amount of light particles, in the form of radiation, permeate every corner of the universe. So, darkness is best described as "less amounts of light," rather than "the absence of light."
True darkness is only theoretically possible in conditions of absolute zero.

Answer 7

Darkness is the absence of Light.

When Light is gone - then darkness comes.

Interesting note - the shadow reveals where the Light comes from

Answer 8

i think darkness is a concept like time. figmented by people in order to make sense of the world. It doesnt come from anywhere, darkness is simply an absense, a nothingness. Its a bit like saying where does the vacuum come from!

Answer 9

Darkness is the absense of light.

Answer 10

Interestingly, darkness is merely the absence of light. The only way to create darkness is to remove light from that area. Hope this helps ;-)