Horatio Clare

Seeing the dark in a new light

Even in the deepest mineshaft we’re surrounded by light we can’t see, explains Jacqueline Yallop, drawing on quantum physics to help dispel ordinary night terrors

‘Moonlit Landscape with Bridge’ by Aert van der Neer, 1648-50. A landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, Van der Neer specialised in night scenes lit by the moon or distant fires [Getty Images]

  • Into the Dark: What Darkness is and Why it Matters

    Jacqueline Yallop

    Icon Books, pp. 224, £16

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