If there’s nothing faster then light how did the dark get there first?

Question: If there’s nothing faster then light how did the dark get there first?
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  dark,
  light
Asked by anon-200222 to David on 6 Mar 2019.
- David Walker-Sünderhauf answered on 6 Mar 2019:
  
  Maybe the light slept in that day? 😉
  
  Jokes aside, “light” is a wave of photons (small particles), so dark is just absence of them, so “nothing” – kind of the default for something to be.

Question: If there’s nothing faster then light how did the dark get there first?