Talk:Absolute Darkness/@comment-34296310-20180111111450

When you really think about it, very few intellectual properties(if any at all) got this right. Sure, fantasy is fantasy, you may pull some bullshit for the coolness factor and plot convenience, the universe may be different from ours... But c'mon, is it that hard to follow basic laws of physics?

Technically speaking, darkness is just abscence of light. Anyone who controls light can create darkness, light is photons, darkness is abscence(actually more like very few) of them. If you try to attack someone with darkness it will be weaker than attacking them with the weakest stream of light.

Hell, we as humans can't even see pure darkness, it probably doesn't exist, photons are everywhere.

So, to create darkness you'd have to create a space free of photons. Not even counting that this would probably take more than it's worth, how do you even repel photons? we only know how to block them. It would probably take a shockwave moving as fast as the speed of light to stop a single wave of them... Before another million waves come in a single second.

But hey, not a bad stealh option. If you make a space free of light and get inside it, you'll be somewhat invisible. To an outside viewer it will just seem like a slight distortion because the photons will curve around the space you're in and hit something behind you, then bounce back into the viewer's eyes making the space you're in somewhat see-through. You'll be completely blind thou.

On the other hand, having something that achieves complete darkness through sheer power and as a side effect? Nice. It probably has at least as much or more destructive power than a black hole.

If it just creates darkness with no exertion of force/absorption of kinetic energy, then it's crap, not possible or realistic.

Forgive my nerd rage, but it's pointless to stop now.