# Why is the sky dark at night? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [January 8, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-sky-dark-at-night/709346 "2015-01-08T22:25:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-sky-dark-at-night/709346/122 "2015-01-31T17:10:56Z")
> [@BruceVoigt](#): > > Think HOT and light as being nuclear particles orbiting in chaotic orbit directions > > It takes reaction to turn stone to gas, then it takes reaction to turn gas to water and again reaction to turn water to gas, reaction then turns gas back into rock. (comet, asteroid, earth and yes also the sun as fire is at the nucleus of all these. When some one say’s your a ball of fire, well you really are! > > As all cells have a nucleus, we are unable to get to the center of our planet but we can study a water cell. To do this first understand that the nucleus of any cell is made up of orbiting nuclei so small as to not interact with matter as we know it. You will find at the nucleus what will be to you as air pockets or bubbles and if studying the universe instead of this ice cube you would call these bubbles black holes. Now your really going to want to call these black holes oxygen and hydrogen but when you know the secret way of causing a reaction that has these many particles running into each other then you to can discover the fire in your ice cube. That does not work, a black hole absolves not only matter, but energy and that also includes waves. Seismic waves are detected also in a straight line passing trough your theorized black holes in the center of the earth. Of course if the idea is that black holes are only applicable to the inside of atoms, then they are irrelevant in this case (too small and those back holes -if they exist - in the atoms they do not change the properties of matter already observed), matter will behave as expected and so the seismic waves already show that there is no hollow earth. [http://www.columbia.edu/~vjd1/earth\_int.htm](http://www.columbia.edu/~vjd1/earth_int.htm) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-sky-dark-at-night/709346/123 "2015-02-01T01:01:56Z")
Psssst! GIGObuster! Don’t bother. Just play along until the MIBs come for him. Um, that’s a new use of “absolves” for me. Typo? Definition? ---
**Author:** ![BruceVoigt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@BruceVoigt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BruceVoigt)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-sky-dark-at-night/709346/124 "2015-02-01T01:56:19Z")
Colors of the Sky Blue, Orange, Green “GREEN” Only once have I experienced the inside of an active cumulonimbus cloud. Flying the clocks at about five thousand feet I was met with heavy turbulence, deafening thunder and lightening all around the aircraft – close enough to touch. At about the time a decision was made to somehow get the hell out of this, I broke out into a humongous cavern. It was medium light getting lighter in elevation, the colour being an eerie green-grey. It was dead calm and I will swear that the drone of the engines were one half of normal. I would be enjoying this fantastic experience but for the fact that the ‘outy’ was going to be like the ‘iny’ – and it was. Guess that I can claim to have flown an aircraft through a Black Hole! “WOW” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-sky-dark-at-night/709346/125 "2015-02-01T02:31:15Z")
> [@BruceVoigt](#): > > Guess that I can claim to have flown an aircraft through a Black Hole! “WOW” You guess wrong. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-sky-dark-at-night/709346/126 "2015-02-01T02:32:46Z")
Not likely **BruceVoigt** as you should had become spaghetti if it had been a black hole. > **[What If You Fell Into a Black Hole?](https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/what-if/what-if-fell-into-black-hole2.htm)** > > Call up your travel agent because we're booking a one-way flight to an exotic, five-star black hole. What are you in store for on this unique journey? > [@dropzone](#): > > Psssst! GIGObuster! Don’t bother. Just play along until the MIBs come for him. > > Um, that’s a new use of “absolves” for me. Typo? Definition? Yes, a typo, I meant to say “absorbs” And yes, I know. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-sky-dark-at-night/709346/127 "2015-02-01T04:36:40Z")
I don’t think that trying to correct **BruceVoigt** ’s misconceptions about black holes will be very profitable, given how many layers of other misconceptions he has below that. I think we might need to start with something more basic, like the fact that some things are alive and some things are not alive. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-sky-dark-at-night/709346/128 "2015-02-01T19:54:25Z")
The definition of life is hairy at best though. ---
**Author:** ![BruceVoigt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@BruceVoigt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BruceVoigt)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-sky-dark-at-night/709346/129 "2015-02-01T20:51:02Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > The definition of life is hairy at best though. Yes there is talk of bringing back the woolly mammoth and there is enough information in that dead piece of 2X4 as to grow the tree from which it came. Also my technology will effectively replace stem cell science allowing an amputee a new limb or any body part. Why is the sky dark at night? Well dropzone and I have pretty well covered that! ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-sky-dark-at-night/709346/130 "2015-02-01T21:05:06Z")
Guys, you have to remember that the abbreviation for Bruce’s Stuph is BS. ---
**Author:** ![BruceVoigt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@BruceVoigt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BruceVoigt)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-sky-dark-at-night/709346/131 "2015-02-02T18:51:03Z")
Why is the sky dark at night? you can relate this to what really brought down the three 911 towers but first; Experiment: On a bar magnet, at center place a small (approx ¼ in) ball bearing. You will notice that it just barely sticks. Give it a nudge towards either end (pole). It will zoom to the end and will be much harder to remove. This will indicate that the magnets power is at the poles. “This will indicate that the magnets power is at the poles”.—This Statement Could Not be Farther from the Truth. Power (energy) at the poles is so minute in comparison to the power of the nucleus. Forces of Equal Evolution act upon Forces of Equal Evolution and through reverse evolution each dividing cell (because of nuclei high orbit speed) is smaller than the last. These “many” small cells having the same energy at a nucleus do not interact with matter. This is why it is calm in the eye of a tornado, the cell of a cumulonimbus cloud and my science adding black hole or the nucleus of any cell! ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-sky-dark-at-night/709346/132 "2015-02-02T18:55:56Z")
And that kids, is why the sky looks dark at night. ---
**Author:** ![BruceVoigt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@BruceVoigt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BruceVoigt)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-sky-dark-at-night/709346/133 "2015-02-02T19:03:18Z")
what really brought down the three 911 towers but first; Experiment 605 One BB sized ball bearing One bread and butter knife One magnet Attach bearing to either pole of the magnet Attach bearing and magnet to center of knife Make a few bets to what the bearing stays or attaches to when pulled apart With the bearing hanging on the knife and undisturbed the bearing stays with the knife indefinitely My experiment 605 is a very important scientific discovery Can you think of a way that the above technology could be used to warrant it being an important scientific discovery? “Let me help with this,” if you take the technology of the electromagnetic crane in the scrap metal yard and apply this technology to produce a hand held on off magnet you can then take this all to outer space enabling a quick and easy way to assemble things. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-sky-dark-at-night/709346/134 "2015-02-02T21:13:09Z")
> [@BruceVoigt](#): > > Power (energy) at the poles is so minute in comparison to the power of the nucleus. Forces of Equal Evolution act upon Forces of Equal Evolution and through reverse evolution each dividing cell (because of nuclei high orbit speed) is smaller than the last. These “many” small cells having the same energy at a nucleus do not interact with matter. This is why it is calm in the eye of a tornado, the cell of a cumulonimbus cloud and my science adding black hole or the nucleus of any cell! I can forgive your science, but not your grammar. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-sky-dark-at-night/709346/135 "2015-02-02T21:55:58Z")
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