Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-24482836-20140131021153/@comment-26521369-20161017134932

Abstract question here, the absence of light creates darkness, but, does the absence of darkness create light?

If you were to absorb all light leaving none of it behind you would be left with darkness, if you were to do the same with darkness (remove darkness not counter it with light) then what are you left with?

Going by this I would say darkness has a bit of an upper hand, especially considering light generally needs a source, while darkness doesn't, and while light moves insanely fast, it cannot be everywhere at once and also dissipates via absorption via matter. Even If you were to create a supreme intense light encompassing everything, everywhere, even penetrating matter to reach hollow pockets (underground caves etc.). You will need to not only hold it long enough to travel to reach the end of reality for it to remove all darkness, and maintain it infinitely, for once you stop the darkness would return as the light dissipates.

Also considering that light comes in intensities, couldn't that mean the same for darkness. Normally you don't think of that, a light goes on, thus we believe the darkness is gone. But what if it is more like a percentage? Where intense blinding light is the point where there is no darkness and all other intensities are just where the value of light is higher then the darkness? And where we start believing its starting to get dark (shadows, night with star/moon light etc.) is when the value of darkness is higher then light?