Is there a speed of dark?

How fast is the speed of darkness? Strictly speaking, dark is simply the absence of light, and thus has no speed at all, according to noted astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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Is darkness as fast as light?

Darkness travels at the speed of light. More accurately, darkness does not exist by itself as a unique physical entity, but is simply the absence of light. Any time you block out most of the light – for instance, by cupping your hands together – you get darkness.
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Is darkness the fastest thing?

Most of us already know that darkness is the absence of light, and that light travels at the fastest speed possible for a physical object. So, what does this mean? In short, it means that, the moment that light leaves, darkness returns. In this respect, darkness has the same speed as light.
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What is faster light or dark speed?

Darkness Is Faster Than the Speed of Light.
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Does darkness exist without light?

Colloquially, this is a minor point. It is however a very important distinction. Darkness doesn't exist, and therefore cannot spread or move, but light (which obviously does exist) can. And in doing so it can also leave an absence of light, and this absence will grow or shrink at the speed of light.
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How fast is a tachyon?

Tachyons are one of the most interesting elements arising from Einstein's theory of special relativity. The 1905 theory is based on two postulates, nothing with mass moves faster than the speed of light (c), and physical laws remain the same in all non-inertial reference frames.
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Is darkness stronger than light?

But there is also light, and light will always be stronger than darkness.
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Is a thought faster than light?

While light travels at the rate of 186,000 miles per second, thoughts virtually travel in no time.
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Is anything faster than light?

Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity famously dictates that no known object can travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum, which is 299,792 km/s. This speed limit makes it unlikely that humans will ever be able to send spacecraft to explore beyond our local area of the Milky Way.
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How fast are shadows?

300,000 km/s. So when I say your shadow can travel faster than light, I don't blame you if your skeptic senses are tingling. But humour me, because shadows are one thing that can travel faster than light. Shadows are a phenomenon we experience constantly in everyday life.
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How fast is shadow in mph?

According to NASA, the shadow's speed can be anywhere from 1,100 mph at the equator to 5,000 mph at the poles. With the U.S. somewhere in the middle, the shadow's speed won't approach either extreme while it's over North America, but it'll move at a blistering speed regardless.
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Is there a speed of smell?

The time it takes to smell a chemical in the air is the time the chemical takes to travel in air to our nose, and for the nerve impulse to travel to the brain (milliseconds), so smells are almost instantaneous.
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Why can't Tachyons exist?

A tachyon (/ˈtækiɒn/) or tachyonic particle is a hypothetical particle that always travels faster than light. Physicists believe that faster-than-light particles cannot exist because they are not consistent with the known laws of physics. If such particles did exist they could be used to send signals faster than light.
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Do Tachyons exist?

Tachyons have never been found in experiments as real particles traveling through the vacuum, but we predict theoretically that tachyon-like objects exist as faster-than-light 'quasiparticles' moving through laser-like media.
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Are wormholes real?

Wormholes are shortcuts in spacetime, popular with science fiction authors and movie directors. They've never been seen, but according to Einstein's general theory of relativity, they might exist.
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How fast is consciousness?

It is not until they have passed several processing steps that the stimuli reach conscious perception. This unconscious processing prior to perception usually takes approximately 300 milliseconds.
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What is the slowest speed possible?

Surely the slowest speed would be zero, with an object being at rest. Any object can be made to have zero velocity by taking a reference frame about that object.
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How fast do humans think?

In the 19th Century, Hermann von Helmholtz estimated this to be 35 metres per second, but we now know that some well-insulated nerves are faster, at up 120 metres per second.
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What are dark powers?

The Dark Powers are a malevolent force who control the Demiplane of Dread.
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Does a light beam travel forever?

Nope! Light is a self-perpetuating electromagnetic wave; the strength of the wave can get weaker with the distance it travels, but as long as nothing absorbs it, it will keep on propagating forever.
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Why can't we move faster than light?

According to the laws of physics, as we approach light speed, we have to provide more and more energy to make an object move. In order to reach the speed of light, you'd need an infinite amount of energy, and that's impossible!
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Can God travel faster than light?

It seems, so far, that no object has been observed that can travel faster than the speed of light. This in itself does not say anything at all about God. It merely reinforces the knowledge that light travels very fast indeed.
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Can tachyons escape a black hole?

Since the disturbance of a localized tachyon cannot spread faster than c, it therefore cannot escape the inside of a black hole's event horizon.
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Is a neutrino faster than light?

Neutrinos Travel Faster Than Light, According to One Experiment | Science | AAAS.
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Do tachyons go back in time?

The tachyon is created on the "now" hypersurface of simultaneity and propagates towards the "earlier" hypersurface of simultaneity. It arrives at the earlier hypersurface that collects events from an earlier time before it was created. That means that the tachyon is traveling backwards in time.
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