Is Darkness Really the Opposite of Light?

[Char. Limit]

When I ask "what's the opposite of light", what's the first answer that comes to your mind?

 

[JaredJames]

The obvious answers is "it depends how you define light to begin with".

If we're talking about the weight of an object I won't be thinking of darkness.

Off the top of my head, I'd say 'Darkness'. Purely because it's on my mind more than weight.

 

[lisab]

I thought, "The opposite of an electromagnetic wave...whaaaa ?" Seriously.

 

[pergradus]

the opposite of light is light of a pi/2 phase shift.

 

[Dr Lots-o'watts]

The first thing that came to mind was "not light". Then it tried to narrow things down, but hit a snag and had to reboot.

 

[middlj]

The question doesn't make sense to me unles you take "light" as an adjective. So the only two answers it could be is dark or heavy.

I don't think you can have an opposite of an object?

 

[pergradus]

The question doesn't make sense to me unles you take "light" as an adjective. So the only two answers it could be is dark or heavy.

I don't think you can have an opposite of an object?

in my mind "opposite" means the sum of two things add to zero.

So my definition is correct

 

[Darken-Sol]

stasis

 

[gb7nash]

Call me shallow, darkness was the first word that came to mind.

 

[middlj]

in my mind "opposite" means the sum of two things add to zero.

So my definition is correct

touché

 

[leroyjenkens]

I guess I'm in a sciency state of mind since I didn't understand the answer "heavy" until I thought about it.

 

[drizzle]

A black hole...

 

[Pythagorean]

Dark is the first thing that came to mind, followed by criticism and skepticism that light has an opposite in the first place.

 

[Pengwuino]

ds^2 \ne 0

Damn it, read the stupid poll wrong.

 

[Dadface]

In my house I can turn on the lights with the flicks of some switches and I can turn on the darks with the opposite flicks of the same switches.

(All experiments on light must be done in the dark.Was it that geezer Goethe who said that?)

 

[JaredJames]

(All experiments on light must be done in the dark.Was it that geezer Goethe who said that?)

More than likely.

I'd add I read that last part with a hard East London accent!

 

[middlj]

criticism and skepticism that light has an opposite in the first place.

It doesn't - that was my point

 

[narrator]

The spaghetti monster is light, so the opposite of light is the great fork of evil

Muaghhhhh!