2006-06-24 11:32:14 · 12 answers · asked by Dave 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
This can be proven with a simple experiment. Light travels at 186,000 mps, if you go to a desk or anything with a drawer that can be pulled out, while the drawer is closed it can be fairly safe to say that it's dark in the drawer. When you open the drawer you will find that the dark excaped before the light got in. So, you can safely say that darkness travels faster than the speed of light.
2006-06-24 16:16:53 · answer #1 · answered by boilermakersnoopy433 1 · 6⤊ 4⤋
Darkness is the word given to the absence of light. Therefore, its speed is calculated as the speed that light leaves. So, the 'speed of dark' is 186,000 miles per second as well.
Technically, darkness really doesn't have a speed in itself. The speed of light leaving is 186,000 miles per second. It leaves as quick as it comes.
Hopefully, this makes sense.. sort of.
Also, 'The Speed of Dark' is a science-fiction novel by Elizabeth Moon. It is told in the first person viewpoint of an autistic computer programmer.
2006-06-24 11:36:45 · answer #2 · answered by Cap'n Eridani 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think like this, "Let`s take a bucket full of water and drop a needle into it. What you find? The needle occupies the space. Exactly, in the same way light occupies the darkness, but darkness can not travel, only it replaces the light at the same speed.
2006-06-25 03:16:32 · answer #3 · answered by Jagdish D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same as the speed of light, because just as fast as the light leaves the dark arrives.
2006-06-24 12:44:22 · answer #4 · answered by boter_99 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since dark is the absence of light it stands to reason that light needs to leave for dark to exist. Therefore the speed of dark is = to the recessive speed of light. C, no matter how you slice it. But seriously there is no such thing as dark.
2006-06-24 15:03:56 · answer #5 · answered by Brian J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dark can be thought to recede at the same rate as light advances. It's all semantics. Next time ask in the philosophy section.
2006-06-24 12:11:44 · answer #6 · answered by robotdan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dark is absence of light. It's nothing. Zero. It has no speed.
2006-06-24 11:35:37 · answer #7 · answered by evil_tiger_lily 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dark is the absence of light
2006-06-24 13:38:43 · answer #8 · answered by hkyboy96 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually it has no speed but how u can major something that u can see?!huh? one of the things u need to major something is that to see it first or feel it some how:D got it?!
2006-06-25 06:17:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no speed. its just no light.
2006-06-24 12:21:33 · answer #10 · answered by RandomPie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋