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Rabbi, what is the meaning of the dispute about whether darkness is absence or reality? It seems to me to be an undefined dispute.
I mean, what are the sides of the explanations? It is clear that God created the light, He programmed it so that if it were not there, then there would be darkness, right? I mean, either way, it is a type of creation.
I didn’t understand the parties. Where can I find help with this?
I also think this is not a very interesting question, but we can define two sides here. In our reality, it is clear that darkness is the absence of light. But it is worth discussing whether a state without light is a vacuum or is it also something created. For example, a blind person does not see darkness or a black screen in front of his eyes. He does not see anything. In other words, darkness is also something and not a complete absence.
Although all the terminology of darkness and light are terms taken from the world of our consciousness and not from reality itself, it is therefore difficult to talk about darkness and light here. We need to talk about reality when there is no electromagnetic wave, whether there is still something in it or not.
Perhaps another point. Cold and heat relate to each other like 1 and -1, because when you add cold to hot liquid you get lukewarm liquid. But when you add light to darkness you get light (and not something average). That is, the ratio between light and darkness is like between 1 and 0. This implies that darkness is absence. But this is not necessary of course. It is not the opposite of light, but it is possible that there is still something in it that is not a vacuum.
Cold and heat relate like 1 and -1?
Heat is just a measure of motion, so the less there is, the less heat there will be. After all, when we go down to the freezing point of -273 Celsius, then we won't say that below that there is a negative relationship to heat.
The example of heat and cold sounds to me like an example of absence, there is minimal heat in minimal motion, while below that there is simply nothing.
But even when you mix darkness and light, you mean there is some light, and even when you mix heat with cold, there is some heat, I don't see a difference.
If you think again, you'll immediately see the difference. It doesn't matter what measures heat and what creates it. I'm talking about heat as our sensation (just as color doesn't exist in the world, heat doesn't exist in it either. Color, heat, and sound are all our subjective sensations). And what does that have to do with absolute zero? And finally, have you ever tried mixing a little darkness into the light? You're welcome. Maybe try making a flashlight that's woven with darkness. It's worth it, in my opinion, it has potential for a Nobel Prize.
That was the point. That you can't mix heat and cold just like you can't mix light and dark.
I didn't understand that you were talking purely about someone's feeling of heat. It's certainly not a separate entity from the cold they feel.
It is certainly possible. I have a heat source (stove) and a cold source (air conditioner) and the effect of both is offset (I am talking about the sensations and not the physical phenomena). But there is no source of darkness that will offset a source of light.
“The meaning of the dispute over whether darkness is an absence or a reality”:
Once they did not know what to ask to find out.
They assumed that they knew what darkness was and all that remained was to find out whether it was an absence or a reality.
They had to ask what darkness was. But they could not answer that.
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