Why is it that the universe has more darkness than light?

Question

Why is it that the universe has more darkness than light?

Answer 1

i. Who said that?Maybe we don't see this light that surrounds us.
All religions agreed that GOD is light or has eternal light.
Perhaps we are in a sort of lower or isolated dimension where we can't see effectively all light sources.

Answer 2

It is often quoted as proof that the universe is not infinite, otherwise there would be an infinite accumulation of light from stars to infinity.

However, it is now recognised that dark matter gets in the way, and there may be more of that in the universe than we ever suspected.

But basically, the spacing of stars and galaxies means that most of the universe is empty and devoid of radiating material. If you lived on a planet orbiting a star in a globular cluster, where stars are densely packed, your sky would always be bright, and you probably would not be asking this question. In our part of the galaxy, the stars are quite spread out, so we get little light from them.

Answer 3

The intensity of light diminishes by the inverse sq of the distance from the light source. So if you are two units away compared to one, the intensity is 1/2^2 or 1/4th as bright. Say the distance now goes to 4, the intensity is 1/4^2 or 1/16th as bright.

The light sources in the universe are so far away from each other that the universe appears dark, but not completely void of light. The distances are so far that 1/d^2 makes the light intensity so very small. except of course, when your near the sun, like the earth is.

Answer 4

There is more of the volume of the universe not producing light than there is producing light, by several orders of magnitude.

Darkness isn't something that is a thing in itself. It is a lack of light. It isn't really true to say that the universe has any darkness at all, but I accept the use for the purpose of your question.

Answer 5

Their is more parts of the Universe that are dull voids without anything in them than parts that are populated with light emiting stellar bodies. Has the expansion of the Universe goes on, the less light will be spread out over the Universe. Also, light needs to hit something to light it, it can't light dull space without first hitting something.

Answer 6

light comes in waves and is given off as a form of energy. where the energy is not present, there is no light. darkness is simply nothing. the universe is mostly empty space. when nothing goes there it is just darkness.

Answer 7

darkness is the absense of light. There jst isnt enough stars to "light up" the universe. And who knows, maybe light years away, there could be trillions and trillions of stars but we just havent discovered them yet

Answer 8

logically it is the darkness that illuminates the lights, therefore, you need no lights if darkness dont exist! remember that, you can only see the light in the dark...

Answer 9

Because entropy always increases. Light is energy, and energy is constantly disipating and decreasing in force. Whereas darkness is just lack of energy, and there is no force that decreases the overall lack of energy.

Answer 10

That is because it is made up of more dark matter then regular matter and dark matter doesn't reflect light.