Drinking scotch and pondering things...

[metacree]

Okay... here goes. For some odd reason I have been pondering the subject of absolute light and absolute darkness. When I think about it, it seems that you can never know absolute light. My reason for that being as such, When you have a fairly bright light you can always bring in another light that is brighter by comparison. Now the former light would be the darkness by contrast. To me, it seems this could continue on for infinity and we would never have an absolute.

Absolute darkness on the other hand, I believe could be achieved this instant. If I step into the darkest room in my basement and turn off the lights, the room would be completely void of all light.(and I could have a secret dance party!) I'm sorry that I can't explain my thoughts on this in a more thorough manner, but I haven't many people to discuss such things with. If anyone wants to bother, I would rather have arguments against my theory.

 

[WrongSprite]

What about those ridiculously light rooms that they have in movies? Just pure white. There's nothing brighter than that to me.

 

[metacree]

Light rooms in movies? example?

 

[El Poncho]

I would love to be around absolute silence, it would be truly awesome.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[Asturiel]

Actually, we couldn't get brighter than the light that makes us blind.

Because we wouldn't be able to see the new light, so we wouldn't know if it was brighter or not.

Very true. Light can only get as bright as to the limit of our sight now can it.

However absolute darkness is just having no light, something that can be easily achieved and mankind has taken that into real life and shown us what it can yield.

 

[GoldenRaz]

Light rooms in movies? example?

The Matrix? That's right of the top of my head, but there are more examples here [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhiteVoidRoom].

 

[metacree]

Actually, we couldn't get brighter than the light that makes us blind.

Because we wouldn't be able to see the new light, so we wouldn't know if it was brighter or not.

what about sunglasses, lol. No seriously, that is a good point, but light can go beyond what we can see before going blind. I guess you could argue that it doesn't exist if we can't perceive it, but that often isn't the case.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[orangebandguy]

I'm pondering that secret dance party you mentioned. Sounds fun.

 

[metacree]

mmkay. I can respect that, but how far do you take that belief for curiosity's sake? blackholes, atoms, infrared light. we can't really see those but we have tools to prove they exist.

crapa I meant to quote thatnamelessguy. anyways... the above is to you.

 

[metacree]

I'm pondering that secret dance party you mentioned. Sounds fun.

would you like to come? there's scotch!

 

[Flames66]

You've been watching Sunshine havn't you?

 

[metacree]

You've been watching Sunshine havn't you?

what's that?

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

I would love to be around absolute silence, it would be truly awesome.

You would be dead, as the blood pulsing through your body makes a slight degree of sound. Absolutely no sound means you have no blood flow.

Also, if you follow string theory, it is impossible to exists and have no sound.

 

[El Poncho]

I would love to be around absolute silence, it would be truly awesome.

You would be dead, as the blood pulsing through your body makes a slight degree of sound. Absolutely no sound means you have no blood flow.

Also, if you follow string theory, it is impossible to exists and have no sound.

How about no sound I can hear, since I can only hear around 2000hz-20,000hzso something like that

 

[Flames66]

I would love to be around absolute silence, it would be truly awesome.

You would be dead, as the blood pulsing through your body makes a slight degree of sound. Absolutely no sound means you have no blood flow.

Also, if you follow string theory, it is impossible to exists and have no sound.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/

i liked the idea (apart from the dodgy science) but it got too silly towards the end.

 

[ORLOFT]

So do you just mean absolute light or dark in the context of what is physically perceptible by the human eye? I ask because there are levels of light, and darkness I imagine, that we cannot perceive... then again, can we truly perceive darkness? That's more of a semantics conversation though.

Your basement wouldn't be devoid of all light, just light perceivable by the human eye. If you put on night vision goggles, you'd be able to see just fine, and basically all those are doing is allowing you to see light levels that are typically invisible to us.

As far as absolute light, within the context of what is perceivable to the human eye, can be achieved by sitting in the dark (i.e. your basement) and then shining a bright light into your eye. For a split second you will perceive as much light as is possible for the human eye.

 

[BuckminsterF]

Light is the abundance of light particles (photons) percieved by a sensor, darkness is the absence of photons. Absolute darkness would be where the sensor senses no photons, so absolute light would be where the sensor senses all space to be filled with light, in terms of the human eye, that would mean stimulating every optic nerve simultaneously.