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Comfortable-Fail-558 t1_j8tgz3l wrote

Totally false. Darkness does not have a speed. And the speed of light is simply the speed of particles with no mass.

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N013 t1_j8tnnpb wrote

"Dark speed" sounds like an idea in a shitty sci fi

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PatrickAplomb t1_j8tf74x wrote

But darkness is just the absence of light. So there isn’t a speed of darkness

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colonelpanek t1_j8tfkex wrote

There is a speed to which light becomes absent from a point in space

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PatrickAplomb t1_j8tfycb wrote

So…it’s the speed of light

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Economy_Estimate8 t1_j8ti1p3 wrote

I guess its the speed at which light leaves, which yes is the same as the speed of light

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colonelpanek t1_j8vofj9 wrote

This was my point. A place becoming dark happens at the same rate as becoming light. It’s like a cup being simultaneously half full and half empty in that it’s 2 sides of the same coin.

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rispondi t1_j8u0yyq wrote

Dude, take it easy with those brownies

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Homelessnomore t1_j8tkto8 wrote

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”

  • Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
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zephyrprime t1_j8tjqdt wrote

Shadows can actually move faster than the speed of light. Also, space itself can in theory move faster than the speed of light. There are actually probably many physical objects traveling faster than the speed of light relative to us because although they travel less than the speed of light in their own reference frames, the expansion of the universe causes objects very far away from us to be moving at a substantial speed so that extra speed they get from space itself carrying them farther away from us could put them over the top of the speed of light.

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Sorry_Site_3739 t1_j8trh6r wrote

Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light relative to us. That’s what’s fucked up, and why such speeds bend time itself.

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[deleted] OP t1_j8tfbe7 wrote

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austinsoundguy t1_j8tgdzi wrote

Yea that’s what came up first on my Google search too

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[deleted] OP t1_j8ti2t9 wrote

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austinsoundguy t1_j8u714u wrote

Well, the first sentence actually reads “Darkness travels at the speed of light” which is exactly what OP said, so what’s your point?

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austinsoundguy t1_j8tgvwm wrote

The coordinates for the pyramid of Giza is also equal to the speed of light in m/s.

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Gnoom75 t1_j8tm3ma wrote

Made me curious. The speed of light is one dimensional, a geographical coordinate is two dimensional. How can these two be equal?

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awkkiemf t1_j8tmlei wrote

Ooo like the great hypothesis that light is just a dark sucker made by my friend Josh while I was on acid many years ago.

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PrideOrks t1_j8tms2n wrote

I think most energy waves, or in a certain spectrum, travel at the speed of light, so radio waves travel at a speed equal to the speed of light too.

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_monsieurnieht t1_j8turtu wrote

Sshh, there is a thing called “Google”, where you can verify almost anything.

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koregafusionda t1_j8u1cj3 wrote

thats just how quickly the light leaves so its still the speed of light

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JetpackKiwi t1_j8v0ayy wrote

Don't gravitational waves propagate at the same rate as the speed of light?

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captainofpizza t1_j8v3zhp wrote

Imagine a light bright enough to light up the universe and a piece of paper 1 light year wide and tall. The light travels at the speed of light, but if we block it with an object close to its source, the light much much further away will be stopped from projecting onto the paper. If it was a planet that took a day to cross the path of the light relative to the sheet of paper it’s shadow would be seen moving across 365x the speed of light. That darkness sweeping across from lack of light can be much faster than the speed of light because it has no limit.

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_monsieurnieht t1_j8tvc3r wrote

It’s like saying 0 apples have weight. No, it doesn’t, darkness is an absence of light, it is not a thing.

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_monsieurnieht t1_j8tvgdc wrote

It’s like saying 0 apples have weight. No, it doesn’t, darkness is an absence of light, it is not a thing.

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LordZeise t1_j8tjosd wrote

Dark is faster than light, where ever light goes darkness was there before it.

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