Time to be serious

[SamScribble]

There are far too many frivolous questions being asked here. So here's a more serious question: if the speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second, what is the speed of dark?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Its 0 dark thirty.

 

[NippleMuncher]

Obviously, it's faster than the speed of light or else you'd be able to see it leave the room when you flick the switch on.

 

[twister947]

In the words of the author Terry Pratchett. People think light is the fastest thing there is but no matter how fast it travels the darkness is already there waiting for it.

 

[jomar]

Too fast for you to dodge it.

 

[amofiga]

Obviously, it's faster than the speed of light or else you'd be able to see it leave the room when you flick the switch on.

Oh that IS good. LOL!!

 

[KlaytonFrost]

Ugh, maths. Or is it philosophy in this case...

 

[Hypoxia]

forty three

 

[xanach]

Dark is just the absence of light. They have the same speed

 

[Hypoxia]

Dark is just the absence of light. They have the same speed

If the dark is in open space and the light is under water, isn't the dark faster?

Is orange the absence of blue? Is violet the absence of yellow?

Since blue light has a shorter wavelength than red light, isn't red slower?

 

[beingtrue2me]

The entire biker world knows that a black bike goes faster than a white one so that must be the answer.

 

[Ellafun]

Was it an African Swallow or a European Swallow?

 

[drinkz]

Munky was the first to troll. Query won the war. Putting that much effort into trolling just means you're pathetic in real life.

 

[Hypoxia]

Dark is the absence of visible light. Since it may (will) contain non-visible light, the speed is the same as light.

'Visible light' requires photons, which have no sense of time. 'Dark' is the absence of photons. Non-photons don't travel as fast as photons. That's why they hitchhike. What, me hurry?

 

[suckonsimon]

Ugh, maths. Or is it philosophy in this case...

It has to be cosmological question. Given that 80% of the mass of our galaxy is dark matter/energy, given that the gurus trying to discern it are pretty persuaded that it constantly passes through the matter we know, it seems it has a speed. What speed??? How long before we will know??? Perhaps not so long.

 

[drinkz]

Munky was the first to troll. Query won the war. Putting that much effort into trolling just means you're pathetic in real life.

 

[Hypoxia]

No... Photons are a theory. Light is an electromagnetic wave.

Can't fool me! I have been in photon depletion zones, like viewpoints for the Golden Gate Bridge, Empire State Building, Grand Canyon, and Disneyland. In all these (and similar) places, so many cameras have captured so many photons that the photon supply is out-of-balance. If this keeps up, a singularity could occur. Thus, if you see tourists with cameras, KILL THEM! Let Hathor sort them out.

 

[SamScribble]

Thus, if you see tourists with cameras, KILL THEM! Let Hathor sort them out.

It used to be that cameras defined tourists. But now that so many people have 'smart' phones, I guess we have to go back to looking out for plaid Bermuda shorts and Hawaiian shirts.

Supplementary question: What is the speed of a Hawaiian shirt?

 

[BurningMonkey]

... so many cameras have captured so many photons that the photon supply is out-of-balance.

Is this phenomenon similar to that of theunused quarter notes piling up after orchestras play pieces in 3/4 time?

I hear the New York Philharmonic keeps theirs in a big storeroom and sells them at a discount to jazz quintets to make up the deficit in 5/4 and 7/4 works...

 

[BurningMonkey]

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Supplementary question: What is the speed of a Hawaiian shirt?

A question of more interest to me is what is the decibel level of a Hawaiian shirt?
I didn't check the label on the last one I bought and it was so loud that I couldn't sleep.

 

[Hypoxia]

Is this phenomenon similar to that of theunused quarter notes piling up after orchestras play pieces in 3/4 time?

Yes.

I hear the New York Philharmonic keeps theirs in a big storeroom and sells them at a discount to jazz quintets to make up the deficit in 5/4 and 7/4 works...

The NYP and other orchestras hired my local boy Dave Brubeck to "make up the deficit in 5/4 and 7/4 works" but he died, alas, and the "scratch music" crowd haven't kept pace, what with those compositions in 9/8 and 11/12 and 17/16. Those fractional notes pile up like dust in the corners. I have done my best to help, but it's like shoveling the tide.

 

[nittfagm]

Easy. The speed of darkness is -299,792,458 metres per second.

 

[SamScribble]

Easy. The speed of darkness is -299,792,458 metres per second.

Are you suggesting that darkness only travels backwards? Interesting.

 

[NippleMuncher]

Are you suggesting that darkness only travels backwards? Interesting.

That would explain the vacuum it leaves behind.

 

[Emerson40]

Easy. The speed of darkness is -299,792,458 metres per second.

The Speed of Darkness is the title track on an album from Irish-American-Celtic-Punk band Flogging Molly.

Not their greatest effort, IMO. Might be better if played backwards.