where does the dark go when you switch the light on?

Answer 1

It goes to the same place that your lap goes when you stand up.

Answer 2

Dark is simply the absence of light. Dark does not have any characteristic of its own. So when it is dark at night it is due to the Earth's rotation away from the Sun, and at day, the Earth's rotation towards the Sun.

When a light is switched it illuminates (light coming to a surface), and luminates (light coming from a light source). The dark does not go anywhere because it is the absence of light, not something that exists in itself.

Answer 3

prof mole is working on the problem and i cannot find the answer i know its there and suddenly disappears when the light is on. i have thought about dark matter and i have been working on it for a lot of years since lycar the dog was sent into space by the soviets i was lying in a field at the time just looking up at blue skies with sandmartins flitting the sky. 45 years later i am no nearer the answer yet i have blown up and removed the roof tiles from my box room and could not find the machine i was working on because it had disappeared taking my roof tiles with it it it was only small only 1 metre circumference but left a 7 metre hole in my roof and the next time i will make shure it happens again with some form of restraint.

Answer 4

A brilliant and well thought of question !

The real physical answer is so obvious, that I did not think of it in those terms.

I could reply that I keep it all in a shoebox under my bed, and only open the lid when someone turns their lights off.

Having worked for a film lighting company ages ago, I was asked what happens to the brightness when I turn off the carbon arc super-troopers.

Ah, I spake, feel that unit.
See - it is still mad hot. That is where I store the light.

Cheers,

Bob

Answer 5

It is what is commonly known as a dimensional change. Since we do not see the other dimensions which are dark absorbent, as the dark is pushed by the force of the light, it is no longer measureable. May the force be with you.

Answer 6

If you look up the definition of darkness, darkness means the absense of light. So if there is light there is no darkness. But, where no light reaches, that is where darkness is. Darkness isn't really anything, it is just when nothing occupies the space. Like an empty chair, when you sit in it something is there, but once you get up, there isn't anything there.

Answer 7

Dark is everywhere all the time. Light comes to dark, dark does not come to light. Light conceals the dark, but its still there.

Answer 8

there is nowhere for it to go so it is still there you just can't see it because our eyes see the lgiht and not the dark when they are together take away the light and we can't see anything because of the dark so we see the dark(i think mite want to check that a bit though)

Answer 9

more importantly if the dark is already there before the light. does that mean the speed of dark is faster than the speed of light?

Answer 10

I LOVE this question! Well, when you introduce light to your eye, it stimulates the sensors on your eye to send messages to the brain so they they 'see' the different wavelengths of colours etc.
So really, the dark is still there, you just can't see it anymore.

Answer 11

It's still there, just turn the light off again.