• HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de
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        10 months ago

        Thats irrelevant because darkness ≠ night. Night and day are both defined based on local observations (between sunset and sunrise).

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        • littleblue✨@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          Inaccurate. For example, a location on the perpetually-dark side of an object is shrouded in “night”, whereas the opposite side is always “daytime”. The argument there is simply: does day/night depend on axial rotation of said object, or does it include the personal transit of a viewer across the boundary and thus cause the rising/setting of the dominant light source by that alone?

          Regardless, darkness is the default state of the known universe.