2006-12-20 19:12:21 · 17 answers · asked by Minion 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
This question gets asked again and again.
Light is a physical thing. Photons. They travel at a fixed speed.
Dark is not a "thing", it is a condition, the absence of something. To ask about its speed doesn't make any sense.
It's like dumping the water out of a bottle and asking how much "dry" you have.
2006-12-21 02:46:01 · answer #1 · answered by amused_from_afar 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Darkness is simply the absence of light. It has no defined speed. That's like asking, what's the speed of silence?
2006-12-20 19:16:37 · answer #2 · answered by Roman Soldier 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No one knows for sure, but there are theories.
Darkness does not move, it is always present, and light is laid on top of it.
Darkness moves at the same speed as light, and it meets the laws of motion in that Darkness is the equal and opposite reaction for the action of the movement of light.
Light moves. Darkness is the absence of light and does not.
And of course you must define dark. There are forms of light that are not visible to the human eye which to you and me could be classified as dark.
2006-12-20 19:24:31 · answer #3 · answered by darkenbinary 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Darkness it isn't something. It is the absence of something. Dark is the absence of light. You could say, however, that darkness will disappear at same speed that light appears.
2006-12-20 19:56:22 · answer #4 · answered by Northstar 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
darkness isn't a thing, darkness is the absence of a thing, that thing being light. in which case it can go as quick as it comes. light speed.
2006-12-20 19:16:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
186000 miles per second, the same as the speed of light. If one were to shine a light beam for one second at outer space, and you could measure and watch it, it would be a string of light 186000 miles long with a beginning and end. Coming directly behind the light would be..."dark". So the speed of dark is the same as the speed of light, or, 186000 miles per second.
2006-12-20 19:17:36 · answer #6 · answered by James M 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Lol, that would be the speed of the absence of light, would it not?
Now, if there's a message in your question I would be hard put to fathom what it is.
2006-12-20 19:17:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is not speed of dark there is speed of LIGHT! It is...340.000.000 km per sec.
2006-12-20 20:14:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
dark is the absence of light....the speed that the light leaves a place, therefore spped of light = to speed of dark
2006-12-20 19:34:36 · answer #9 · answered by (yellow_taxi) 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
darkness is thew absence of light just like cold is the absence of thermal energy.
2006-12-20 23:21:53 · answer #10 · answered by DUDE D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋