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Originally Posted by Pletho
Color is a by-product of light, it does not exist without light. It's simply a bending of light. Simple as that. As for darkness. It cannot exist without light. Darkness is the absence of light. Light is not the absence of darkness.
You're mixing your metaphors. Darkness as the absence of light is a scientific term consequential to Newton.
The other part of what you say is the religious consideration as "I am the Light of the World" which is more expressive, universal and of course telling.
Now, is a scientific sense, we as sense bound human beings do not and cannot see "light" for "light" has no materiality even though the atomists posit and work with photons which in the scientific jargon, has a ponderability of weight and measure. They also posit a "speed of light", I believe secondary to the Michelosen-Morley experiment which was purported to speak to the "ether" of science.
I believe that this "ether" was not found for they were again looking for a ponderable (weight and measure) realm but it (the ether) was disproved.
The assumption is that light is ponderable but going along with the light and color experiments of Goethe he found that he could only speak to the two qualities of "brightness" and "darkness", the polarities manifested to our human senses.To clarify again, speaking scientifically, "brightness" and "darkness", within our sense bound realm have qualities . As per example there is a graduation of "darkness" as there is a graduation of "brightness".