Is the “Speed of Dark” Faster Than the Speed of Light?

that is a TRIPPY concept…

Even the closest star to our solar system by the name of Alpha Centaurai would take us 4.3 years to travel to if going the speed of light.  When you think about galaxies billions of light years away it doesn’t seem that far at all.  It is tough to get one’s mind around that.  Without getting into quantum entanglement and really bizarre theoretical physics, this question as demonstrated by the ever clever “Vsauce” is something to ponder.

The science of speed and this new debate will make you scratch your head.  The speed of light has been measured and discussed extensively but what about a new way of measuring the universe and its properties in the speed of dark.  Wait what?  Yes you read that correctly and the narrator “vSauce” explains this concept.  If I recall the speed of light is about 186,000 miles per second.

Let’s check out the speed of dark in the video on page 2

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37 Comments

  1. Scott Howard said:

    the speed of darkness is faster because the speed of light pierces through darkness and splits it like shears through paper but the instant light is gone the darkness returns at an instant

  2. Karl Rogers said:

    If darkness is the absence of light, then the speed of darkness is the same as the speed of light but in the opposite direction.

  3. Larry Walk said:

    I’m thinking through beers and pot here but your theory provides a sound argument against my original thought process on this. Thank you sir.

  4. DylanAimée Tice said:

    So darkness moves at the speed of light since blocking the light source means that darkness takes over in the time it takes for the photons already present to dissipate.

  5. DylanAimée Tice said:

    Time isn’t a man made concept. It’s a way of thinking about and dividing something that actually exists into units that can be understood and calculated. A minute passes whether we call it a minute or not, and whether we are aware of it passing or not.

  6. Donny Harris said:

    It’s not that it’s faster. Dark and light are tied at the tail and surrounded by nucleus. It is the yin/yang relationship that all force and pressure (gravity/lift, dark/light, time/space

  7. William Walker said:

    Who in the hell is reading my mind?! I decided to think about that yesterday.
    My question would be; if light is rays and particles, is darkness some kind of vast containment vessel?
    Is darkness still there but you just can’t see it because of the light.
    Or what if light were neither rays nor particles, rather just an excitation of airborne elements (as well as dark energy and matter) resulting from exposure to solar radiation.
    Damn that gave me a headache!

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