If you turn the lights on and off when you hit the light switch then do you turn the dark on when you turn the lights off or is the dark always there just hidden (shadows)?
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ScholarAtHeart
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Ah... the nature of light. I'm not sure what you are getting at because of your question being in the "Riddles" category, but you're in for a physics lesson anyway. Light is a large spectrum of visible "waveicles" that all together, make the colour "white". When something appears white to you, it means that that object is reflecting all the visible spectrum back to your eyes. If it appears green then it is absorbing all the light except various wavelengths of blue and yellow, which are reflected back to your eyes as green. So back to your question... when you turn on the light you are creating a light source which supplies light to the room which bounces off everything and ends up in your eyes. When you turn off the light, you are ceasing the light source and thus depriving your eyes of the reflected light. There is no such thing (outside of fiction) as "dark", it is just absence of light. Hope this helps.
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we only see light because the light bounces off objects to our eye. the dark is always on.
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