Has anyone heard of it ? . As I understand it believers of this theory say that lights work not by emitting light but by sucking dark in. Dark exists as a thing, not just because there is no light , it is heavier and travels faster than light. Interesting theory but a bit hard to get the old head round. Perhaps blackholes in space are just really dark Suns radiating dark through the universe?
2007-02-22 04:55:41 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Yes. Many times.
Too many observaitions are better explained by taking light as something that is emitted. You can view light as a particle (photon) or a wave (electromagnetic) or sometimes both. The theory you bring to our attention describes light as the absence of dark.
There are, of course, dark sectors (separated by what we perceive as light rays), a speed of dark that can be measured by the time it takes for the darkness of a distant wall to be sucked in by a "lightbulb" -- turns out to be the same as the speed of light.
However,the "sucking of dark" has a much harder time explaining some observations such as the slit experiment, emission spectra, LASER and MASER, even RADAR for that matter (try to explain the electro-magnetic pulsations of "collimated, directional packets of sucked darkness" at 1 cm wavelength)...
I'm not saying it can't, just that you must make more complicated assumptions about the universe.
2007-02-22 05:10:03 · answer #1 · answered by Raymond 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The dark sucker theory is one of those silly spoof things that appear in physics magazines. I'm responsible for a few of myself.
The basic principle is stated as you put it there but it's padded out with examples which simply make you giggle at how silly it all is.
The candle is a primitive dark sucker. Being so primitive, it can't suck much dark out of a room. The corners of the room stay dark because it can't suck that far. It must be sucking the dark because when you blow it out, you can see all the dark on the wick and it wasn't dark when it was new so that proves it.
You see, it's very silly, tounge in cheek stuff. I hope nobody is actually taking it seriously. Anyone who does needs to read some Douglas Adams. Then you'll spot a spoof a mile off.
2007-02-22 14:38:31 · answer #2 · answered by BIMS Lewis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When in California many years ago I met a gentleman in a science class that maintained gravity to be a "push". He had a difficult time proving it in class, and the book he wrote "Gravity is a Push" never made it to the top ten list. The reason I mention this is that what you have suggested is very similar in nature of completely changing the obvious into a bit of humor.
2007-02-22 15:54:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Black holes, if they emitted dark, would spread that dark through space. They don't. The dark stops at the event horizon.
2007-02-22 14:22:27 · answer #4 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does that mean that the white meat on chicken is just sucking in dark meat from the legs and thighs?
2007-02-22 13:07:39 · answer #5 · answered by tmerce80 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gee! Thought every one knew what a darkon is You can't see them because they only come out at night.
2007-02-22 15:46:59 · answer #6 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is weird. I never heard that before.
2007-02-22 13:09:18 · answer #7 · answered by bldudas 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Did you take your medication today?
2007-02-22 13:06:50 · answer #8 · answered by stargazergurl22 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I bust caps in suckas!
2007-02-22 12:59:18 · answer #9 · answered by w00t 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
wow... thats quite a fiction/science question there... i believe i will have to do some research on this...
2007-02-22 12:59:54 · answer #10 · answered by sailor_aj92 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋