On the Absence of Light

To define something to be 'dark', or 'black' as we sometimes call it, we must first define colour and several other substances and irregularities.

Colour is in its simple definition our minds manifestation of the light waves reflected by an object. Whether we see something as red or green, depends on the objects refreaction of light.
Matter is anything which we can see, touch, or manipulate. Therefore, a rock is matter because we can touch it, also because we can see it, and water is matter because we can see, touch, and manipulate it, ie change its form without exherting force.
Air, however, is an irregularity, as is 'space', and to an extent, atoms, protons and neutrons. They dont fit to be matter, because we cant see or touch them, but we know they exist because they fit observations and equations. We can call such substances 'Nequid'.
An object of matter which we can see through but cannot see itself is an Aquoid

Nequid allows the passing of light waves but does not reflect them hence we cannot see nequid.
Matter reflects light which allows us to see it. Water is a special case in which it allows us to see through it as well as it being matter and not a nequid. Although we cant actually see it, we can see through it, which makes it an aquoid. Glass is the same.
We cannot state that aquoids are devoid of colour, for that would mean that it would not reflect light. For something to be absent of light, the following would be true:

An object devoid of light would have no colour, we would not be able to see it, it would be composed of matter, and because it was an absence of light we would not be able to see it as we see things based on the reflection of light and as there is none in this case it would not be visable. But that doesnt make it invisable or impossible, and it would still contain mass to the same variability as objects in the universe ie it would come in all shapes and sizes. Because it doesnt reflect light, we have to assume it absorbs light, and therefore the line of sight around the object would be impered, perhaps making the object seem larger, if we could see it that is.
As the object 'swallows' light, we can also assume it grows in mass, because no light is emitted again. this would essentially make the object an inverted sun, or one definition of a black hole.
Another point is that if the common definition of black as being the absence of all light were true, then we would be in trouble because the earth would be full of inverted stars. This however is not the case. Our definition of black and the colour black differ, and using the above definition of a colour, we can safely assertain that black, as well as white, is in fact a colour. Some artistic views would point it to be a tone rather that a colour, but technically, as proved above, it must in fact be a colour.

Contents

- Maori Myths & Legends

- For the Glory of Rome
- The Sanity of Professor R.J. Basil Part One, Two, Three
- The Trials of Archibald Henderson of Windsor

- Convergere

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