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

This debate is of course related to the portion of spacetime we have attempted to measure.  Here is more from wikipedia on spacetime:

The term spacetime has taken on a generalized meaning beyond treating spacetime events with the normal 3+1 dimensions. It is really the combination of space and time. Other proposed spacetime theories include additional dimensions—normally spatial but there exist some speculative theories that include additional temporal dimensions and even some that include dimensions that are neither temporal nor spatial (e.g., superspace). How many dimensions are needed to describe the universe is still an open question. Speculative theories such as string theory predict 10 or 26 dimensions (with M-theory predicting 11 dimensions: 10 spatial and 1 temporal), but the existence of more than four dimensions would only appear to make a difference at the subatomic level.

Here is a clever commenter that chips in on this phenomenon:

It is nothing, and yet you can’t have nothing without something, they go hand in hand. Just like you can’t have objects without space between them or there’d be no thing, to differentiate something from nothing… So really, even nothing is something because something implies nothing. Nothingness is like the web of space that connects all things.

We hope you like the video and that your curiosity is piqued.  What do you think is faster?  Or perhaps there is another factor not mentioned related to this question on the speed of light?  Feel free to comment with your ideas.

thanks to FastLizard4 for the pic



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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