Bosons of Light and Darkness

Its sure getting dark out there.

Seemingly everything which provides light is getting dimmer. That’s not literally true of things like the Sun and man-made lighting, but, in other ways, perhaps only in perception rather than in physical actuality, Darkness seems to be increasing.

There is no particle for Darkness as there is the photon for Light, since Darkness is defined as the absence of light, and not as an actual physical force or type of energy. There is nothing which actually radiates Darkness as a hot piece of metal radiates light and heat.

The Dualistic religions from the Middle East have, to one degree or another, provided a source of Darkness because they cannot accept the fact that, in a strict monotheistic theology, G-d is the source of both the Light and the Darkness, of both Good and Evil which befalls Humans. Human action—or inaction—may be cites as the cause of divine Evil, but it ultimately comes from G-d. Causality über alles, even if just “bad luck”, is a better explanation.

But the Darkness still exists, whatever its source, and it does seem to be “radiated” by means of some Humans who, acting as vectors, transmit the Darkness and its effects to other Humans and—sometimes—to the environment.

Its almost impossible to avoid the effects of the Darkness without becoming a hermit. The effects of the Darkness ripple through human society despite the best efforts of some people to neutralize or deflect them. It is a cascading effect, like a row of dominoes when the first one is knocked over, and the only way not to be one of the dominoes is not to be in line with the other dominoes.

On the analogy of photon, an unit of Light energy, from the Greek word for light phôs, phôtos, lets postulate a particle which transmits Darkness and call it a skoton, from skótos, the Greek word for Darkness. Skotons behave in a manner similar to photons, but cause an increase in the lack of Light, rather than an increase in Light. Thus, a skoton is an antiparticle of the photon.

The ebb and flow of Light and Darkness that one sees might not be an eternal battle of the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness, but rather something more like the alternation of day and night as the Earth rotates about its axis, something that occurs naturally as part of the functioning of the physical universe or Kosmos, and it is the human desire of order and continuity which makes the formulation of moral categories for external events inevitable.

Or, perhaps, not.