Rays of Darkness?

We know that light travels from point A to point B along a line that is the light ray.

Any place where light reaches brighten up and the darkness disappears from there.

If we switch the light on in a dark room, the light that is emitted from the light bulb's filament fills up the room, and the darkness in the room ceases. If we pull the curtains open, similarly, the light from the Sun shines in through the window, and the room brightens up, and at the same time the darkness goes away.

Where goes the darkness?

It must go, for it certainly does not stay. If it did stay, there would be still darkness in the room, would not be there? At least, some of the darkness must go, likely in a consistent inverse rate with the amount of light that displaced it. Maybe, the sum of light and darkness is constant for any place in the Universe, and as much darkness leaves the room as this constant minus the quantity of the light that has entered.

What way goes the darkness?

In which direction does it go?

Maybe it goes to the place where the light comes from. Thus, into the filament of the bulb, or in the Sun. Also, maybe it goes exactly along the same line that is the light ray, only in the opposite direction.

(Consider here the analogy of multiple current interpretations. Electrons go in one direction while holes go the opposite way.)

Thus, maybe all light rays are 'darkness' rays, too, and on such duplex paths there may be a simultaneous two-way traffic for the two opposites, light and darkness.

If, then, this hypothetical traffic is simultaneous, maybe in the instant when light leaves point A towards point B, exactly the same time also darkness leaves point B towards point A, mutually to exchange places with each other.

If that is so, then possibly immensely significantly, these two effects at the same instant at two distant places in the Universe must have a single common cause, or origin, or generally, some 'trigger' signal.

How else could 'know' the darkness at point B when exactly to leave?

What could be the nature, place, speed, and etc. qualities of the 'trigger' signal?

Or, if darkness at point B leaves only upon, and as an effect of, the arrival of light, then why so? Why not the other way around, such that it is the darkness that has the priority leaving point B, and then the light to follow by issuing out of point A, upon the arrival, and as a cause, of darkness there?

These latter two, symmetrical propositions, accepting of course the general idea, beg for the reducing of AB distance into discrete intervals, which then tend to lead back to, and to prove the first proposition again.

In the current analogy, one 'hole' and one electron exchanges places with each other, at every discrete interval along the wire of a theoretical 'single' charge-carrier thickness. 'Single' must permit of course these to squeeze by each other. (Of course it is not as simple as that, for a hole could mean more than one different things, e.g. a hole that is a 'positive ion' with a relative lack of electron(s), or a hole that is an 'explicit lack of one electron' juxtaposed to one electron.)

The corpuscular nature of light aside, maybe light and darkness need not even 'squeeze by', for it is not sure either whether darkness is corpuscular, too.

The medium of darkness, then whatever bodiless thing it might be, may simply go through the medium of light.

Otherwise, can antiphoton itself be assumed to be the carrier medium of the darkness, and do a photon and an antiphoton exchange places at every discrete point of the path?

Apparent here also is the further issue of the speed of darkness. It can be intuitively thought of as being equivalent to the speed of light.

However, would that follow from each case, in the hypotheses and propositions above?

Any comments to all these philosophical musings?

Perhaps there is no such thing as darkness... there is simply lack of light. Much the same for temperature... there is no cold... just lack of heat (motion).

Some more of these musings:

When we fill an jar with marbles, where goes the emptiness? When we eat, where goes the hunger? When we learn something, where goes the ignorance? When we make a noise, where goes the silence? When we stop crying, where goes the sadness? When we stop moving, where goes the motion? When we are conceived, where goes our pre-existence? When we die, where goes our life?

Spoiler...

Spoiler...

't is sad, but they all go away. Enjoy life. It's short

Dirk Vdm

With electrons and holes, it is just 1 hole that moves, and a lot of electrons, that could also be the case for light and darkness. If you asume (counterintuitive) that the lightray is the hole and the darknessray are the electrons, then you can asume that the darkness just sits in space, like a fluid, and that the lightray tries to get through, pushing the darkness aside, like a swimmer in a pool. Maybe the lightrays use impuls power by pushing the darkness backwards, realy like a swimmer. In this hypothesis the darkness rays aren't realy rays at all, more particals. So there doesn't realy have to be a common trigger or something like that.

groetjes,

Where does your hunger go when you eat?

Andrew

And where are all the odd socks?

If I steal your food and eat it, my hunger goes to you!

One hole must move for every one electron, for these swap places.

Interesting thought. This would entail waves, or wakes, which would be detectable, perhaps. Maybe surfers could exploit them on the shores.

Cheers!

If you are right, then there is no total or absolute darkness! So, some light must come out even of black holes!

Cheers!

One night I was walking around Boston with some friends on a very slightly foggy night, and saw the dome of a well-known church in the distance, and something about the angle we were viewing from and the angles of the floodlights illuminating it gave the distinct visual impression of a beam of darkness shooting upward from that dome.