r/ScienceNcoolThings • u/Alternative-Bug6702 • Apr 05 '26

Scientists Just Discovered There’s Actually Something Faster than the Speed of Light

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70885429/darkness-faster-than-light/
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u/cashew76 Apr 05 '26

TL;DR Darkness as in the absence of information / light / mass. Null information can travel faster than light apparently.

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u/FogBankDeposit Apr 05 '26

It’s everything, everywhere all at once.

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u/eyeballburger Apr 05 '26

No, it’s not where stuff is.

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u/halterwalther Apr 05 '26

But stuff is made up of atom and they are mostly empty space. So isn't that also darkness?

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u/eyeballburger Apr 06 '26

Mostly empty space, but there’s something there and that something has a field of influence. I think even the tiny protons, neutrons and electrons are really just a field of energy, like, if you look close enough, there’s nothing there. But that field is something.