2007-01-28 07:28:50 · 13 answers · asked by _ 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
without darkness light wouldn t have any speed, darkness provides a path for light, as lower energy levels provide a path for higher energy levels, as cold provides a path for hot, if everything would be exactly the same temperature, all heat would remain at the same place and never travel, if everything would be lighted equally there wouldn t be more or less light, and light wouldn t travel at all, because there wouldn t be anything for the light to be absorbed, and that phenomenon would occure without transition. So does light travel faster if there is more darkness? no, darkness is by itself the absence of energy in all its forms, and there are no levels of darkness, only levels of light.
2007-01-28 08:15:14 · answer #1 · answered by Dan D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Darkness doesn't travel it's always present where there is no light. It just seems to be there in all the places that light cannot reach. In terms of daylight and nighttime the darkness is always right behind it, so if you look at it that way then it would appear that the darkness is just as fast as daylight it just started out a bit later. In reality though darkness has always been there from the beginning of time, just darkness and a void. Light came later moving around the galaxy at 168,000 miles a second, i'm not going into the why's and wherefores it's too complicated i've never gone into it.
2007-01-28 15:55:01 · answer #2 · answered by Loxie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, you can say that darkness is just the absence of light and it doesn't move, but if you think that it appears in an area just as there are no longer any light waves passing through there, you could say darkness also travels at the speed of light: 168,000 miles per second.
2007-01-28 15:37:31 · answer #3 · answered by k0sty2u 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second and darkness, being the absence of light, travels at the same speed!
2007-01-28 23:42:29 · answer #4 · answered by Martin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
0 miles per second.
Darkness is not tangible as light is.
Darkness does not move.
Darkness is nothing.
Darkness only means that light is not there.
So you could say that darkness disappears as quickly as light appears.
2007-01-28 15:59:55 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earth rotates about 1000 mph. Darkness travels at the same speed on this planet.But from different other planets because of their rotation around the sun.
2007-01-28 23:49:55 · answer #6 · answered by CLIVE C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to science beliefs light is an electromagnetic wave that does not need the medum of darkness to travel.As oppsed that a medium does not need to move to propagate light.
2007-01-28 15:57:34 · answer #7 · answered by goring 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Light is a measurable quantity. It has both mass and energy. darkness is a conceptual idea... it is the absence of light, but it has no mass or energy. BUT, it could be argued that darkness disappears as fast as light displaces it.
2007-01-28 15:38:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
darkness is nothing! It is simply the retraction of light! So if you turned of light it would move at the negative speed of the speed of light!
2007-01-28 15:33:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Darkness is merely the absence of light. It's what you have left when no light is moving through a region.
It doesn't move.
2007-01-28 15:32:55 · answer #10 · answered by Tim P. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋