Darkness can "travel" faster than light speed

senilebigguy an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Easier context to recognize light does not "move", rather the energy which our visual sense perceives as light activates or reflects off countless atoms / particles in an area. Picture the popular Newton's cradle desk toy: the interior balls to not move but pass the energy from end-to-end. Light is energy passed along atomic level, distance dependent on countless material and epigenic factors.

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an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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Jimmc414 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Explanation

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perilunar 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Can someone more knowledgeable explain this better please? I have questions:

- if you can measure the 'optical singularities' travelling FTL, then surely 'information' is travelling FTL?

- does it matter (i.e. violate relativity) if something is travelling faster than light speed in some medium as long as it doesn't travel faster than light in vacuum?

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rienbdj 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Something massless and devoid of information can travel faster than light

How can such a thing be detected? And without detection how can speed be measured?

	▲	hexnuts 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not an answer, but I'm modeling it as a way to pull stability out of non stable region of space for a soliton field. The gradient the void causes allows the soliton to find a useful basin.

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hulitu 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In the minds of nature.com writers. /s

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aaron695 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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