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B1 中級 英語 13:32 Educational

What Is The Speed of Dark?

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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here.

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Nyctophobia is the fear of the dark.

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But there's another fear that's more chilling.

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It's the fear that darkness will go away.

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Optophobia, the fear of opening your eyes.

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Light travels at the fastest speed possible for a physical object.

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Darkness is erased when light appears, and returns

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when light leaves. The speed of dark

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is the speed of light but there are other types of darkness

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that can move faster than light speed. For instance,

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a shadow.

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Across a distance, a shadow can become much larger than the object creating it,

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but still mimic its source, moving in the same way for the same amount of time.

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So when a shadow is bigger than the object casting it, it moves a greater distance

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when the object moves but in the same amount of time. Make a shadow large enough

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and it can travel across the surface faster than light.

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If you, here on Earth, cast a shadow onto the Moon,

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not an easy thing to do, that pointed from, say, point A

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on the moon's surface, and then you moved your finger so that the shadow moved

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to point B, your finger would only move a few centimetres

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in a fraction of a second. But the shadow it cast on the Moon

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would move thousands of kilometers in the same amount of time.

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Do it right and you're easily producing a shadow

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that breaks the light barrier.

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But nothing's wrong here.

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The rule is that information can't travel faster than light.

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You can't cause something to happen somewhere else

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faster than light could travel from you to that somewhere else.

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And our superluminal shadow is transferring

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no information from point A to point B.

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Sure, point B is being cast into darkness

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sooner than a light speed message from A could warn him it's coming

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but darkness isn't traveling from point A to point B.

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It's traveling from you to point A and point B

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at the speed of light. What we tend to call a shadow

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is really just a cross-section of a three-dimensional region.

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The darkness you are causing only changes shape

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when newly unblocked light fills

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the previous gap. That's all shadow is:

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a gap. So, in a way, a shadow doesn't

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travel at all. That's an illusion caused by us thinking

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that a shadow is a physical thing, when in reality

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