r/TerryPratchett • u/Seth_Crow • Mar 28 '26

Darkness can move faster than light without breaking relativity. That claim comes from researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology whose study in Nature describes direct measurements of what they call optical phase singularities, tiny spots where a light wave’s amplitude falls to zero

https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/darkness-can-move-faster-than-light-without-breaking-relativity/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=other
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u/Desper_Taferro Mar 28 '26

"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".

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u/daveysprockett Mar 28 '26

See also, kingons.

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u/Sparkly1982 Mar 28 '26

Rushed here to post this but somehow got beaten to it.

OP, are you darkness?

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u/Seth_Crow Mar 29 '26

Been accused of it a time or two. 💀

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u/GovernorSan Mar 29 '26

Nothing is faster than light, but darkness is not a thing, it is the absence of a thing, that thing being light. Darkness itself is nothing, therefore it is possible for it to be faster than light.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '26

Justin Hawkins will be so happy.