Physicists Just Found Something Moving Faster Than Light
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Physicists have confirmed something strange: under the right conditions, darkness can appear to move faster than light. It sounds impossible, but darkness isn’t a particle—it’s simply the absence of light, which means it carries no mass and no information. Because of that, it doesn’t break Einstein’s cosmic speed limit in the way real matter or signals would. What scientists observed is a shadow-like effect that can spread faster than photons without violating the laws of physics. Watch now to see why “moving darkness” is one of the strangest tricks modern physics has confirmed. Credit: Albert Einstein: by Orren Jack Turner available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3b46036 Polarizing Filter: by Jillian Kunze/The Quantum Atlas CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polarizing_Filter.webm Hexagonal boron nitride viewed along the c-axis: b
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