What Is The Speed of Dark?
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. Nyctophobia is the fear of the dark. But there's another fear that's more chilling. It's the fear that darkness will go away. Optophobia, the fear of opening your eyes. Light travels at the fastest speed possible for a physical object. Darkness is erased when light appears, and returns when light leaves. The speed of dark is the speed of light but there are other types of darkness that can move faster than light speed. For instance, a shadow. Across a distance, a shadow can become much larger than the object creating it, but still mimic its source, moving in the same way for the same amount of time. So when a shadow is bigger than the object casting it, it moves a greater distance when the object moves but in the...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. Nyctophobia is the fear of the dark. But there's another fear that's more chilling. It's the fear that darkness will go away. Optophobia, the fear of opening your eyes. Light travels at the fastest speed possible for a physical object. Darkness is erased when light appears, and returns when light leaves. The speed of dark is the speed of light but there are other types of darkness that can move faster than light speed. For instance, a shadow. Across a distance, a shadow can become much larger than the object creating it, but still mimic its source, moving in the same way for the same amount of time. So when a shadow is bigger than the object casting it, it moves a greater distance when the object moves but in the...
