What is the speed of dark? - Page 2

espiex · 05-07-2008, 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Praise Jah

I guess the speed of dark would be the speed of light.

Look at the yin/yang and imagine it spinning as if the light was chasing away the dark.

Thats kind of how I see it.

Me too. Even though dark is just the absence of light and doesn't really exist per se, it still 'replaces' light at the precise speed that light departs.

newbiegreengrow · 05-07-2008, 02:34 AM

darkness does exist, it's just defined as the absense of light.
just like being cold describes the absense of heat energy.
total darknes, or absolutely no light energy available, would not be measurable, since there is no light energy available to measure, therefore nothing to reference. To measure speed, we need a few variables. an object, or some type of energy, a distance, and time. In darkness there is no reference to any type of object or energy, therefore a part of the equation is missing, so it would be deemed immeasurable.

Legal lies · 05-07-2008, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by newbiegreengrow

just like being cold describes the absense of heat energy.

I'm not sure this is analogous. The temperature of something is related to the motion of the particles of that thing. Cold describes slower particle movement than does hot. Cold is not just the absence of heat.

NorcalCarl · 05-07-2008, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Legal lies

I'm not sure this is analogous. The temperature of something is related to the motion of the particles of that thing. Cold describes slower particle movement than does hot. Cold is not just the absence of heat.

Cold is lower amount of heat. The complete absence of heat is absolute zero. -273.15 C. Can't ever be measured because to do so would get heat into the test. The analogy is accurate enough.

**Captain Cannabis** · 05-07-2008, 02:23 PM

cold physics is pretty interesting and we have actually managed to use lasers to cool gas down to the order of 1x10^-12 K (picodegrees)

**Hedons** · 05-07-2008, 02:51 PM

Mainstream science's current understanding of the universe claims that there is dark matter and dark energy.

-Hedons

tedkennedy · 05-07-2008, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Legal lies

Wait a second...

I smell a mole!

lol...

matthewmunari · 05-08-2008, 12:33 AM

98% of the universe is "dark matter"..i reccomend Michio Kaku's book parallel worlds..he touches on that subject, and he's a fucking genius,.......

Gяiєvєs · 05-08-2008, 03:02 AM

light = 1
dark = 0

ThEnEeD4DaWeEd · 05-08-2008, 06:28 AM

I have been reading alot about hw we are actually in the process of collecting dark matter deep underground. They think the only way to get dark mattber by itself is through capturing it as it filters through our earths crust. Pretty cool stuff. Funny thing is all they haven't gotten one dust pube of dark matter. It's only a matter of time. When we get that first spec OH BOY! A bunch of crazy shit will be starting to pop up as not only possible but possible withing a decade of DM being obtained. This is some of what I have read and gathered from the history channel. Check out the universe. AWSOME show!.

ziplock · 05-10-2008, 05:45 PM

I wouldn't say dark matter is all that related to what we understand to be darkness. That is to say I would not claim that a dark room is full of dark matter/energy and when the light switch is hit that this dark matter/energy vacates the room.

However dark matter is a wicked thing to think about.

matthewmunari · 05-10-2008, 07:38 PM

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Originally Posted by ziplock

I wouldn't say dark matter is all that related to what we understand to be darkness. That is to say I would not claim that a dark room is full of dark matter/energy and when the light switch is hit that this dark matter/energy vacates the room.

However dark matter is a wicked thing to think about.

dark matter s underground......tha t is the key to the future

ziplock · 05-11-2008, 01:30 PM

Dark energy is theorized to make up around 3/4 of the matter/energy of the universe. Dark matter and what can be seen make up the other 1/4. There are different candidates for what form dark matter/energy can take. If you're interested check into it via wikipedia or something. It's a cool concept.

matthewmunari · 05-11-2008, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by ThEnEeD4DaWeEd

Check out the universe. AWSOME show!.

agreed! they have a new The Universe, as opposed to the ones with Carl Sagan r.i.p. in them..........coast to coast am is a cool show too, on any major AM radio station 10-2 am pst....

M@

Stone420 · 05-13-2008, 08:52 PM

lol well yeah i agree with everyone else dark is nothing...unless u wanan talk about dark matter than i got a whole lifetime to talk to u about it

matthewmunari · 05-13-2008, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Stone420

lol well yeah i agree with everyone else dark is nothing...unless u wanan talk about dark matter than i got a whole lifetime to talk to u about it

300 years from now, if we as a species survive will have learned how to harness dark matter, and quite possibly use it as a way to travel infinite distances only programmed into a computer on a ship like the shuttle, but black and shaped kind of like the SR - 71 blackbird....we will be able to go anywhere, making contact possible (likely) with a species similar to ours. If it happened once, it can happen again.....

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Matthew

Stone420 · 05-14-2008, 06:38 PM

the only problem with that is we can barely measure Dark Matter as is i mean we know its there we know it makes up about 24% of the known universe its jsut it doesnt react with us or anything we physically can observe lol quantum physics will be the thing to make us go faster than light

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Captain Cannabis hope fiend Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: trapped in a computer Posts: 9,824 Thanks: 219 Thanked 152 Times in 101 Posts	cold physics is pretty interesting and we have actually managed to use lasers to cool gas down to the order of 1x10^-12 K (picodegrees) __________________ fuck the monkeys

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Hedons Ribbed for her pleasure! Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Delta(x) times Delta(p) is greater than or equal to h-bar over two. Posts: 4,380 Thanks: 8 Thanked 35 Times in 29 Posts	Mainstream science's current understanding of the universe claims that there is dark matter and dark energy. -Hedons __________________ New and improved! Now with flushable applicator.

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Gяiєvєs High Score Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Terra Sancta Posts: 7,787 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 420 Thanked 201 Times in 91 Posts	light = 1 dark = 0 __________________ It's so controlled, it's sitting in most, just sit and stare, At a television with a distant glare, And I'm ashamed to admit it, I'm a slave to this shit, As much as anybody but I'm not afraid of it, This is where the change comes, and this is where we make some difference, Embrace what's within us and escape from this prison, All it takes is a little bit of faith, And a little bit of love, to get rid of all the hate,

05-10-2008, 05:45 PM	#31 (permalink)
ziplock Dreamer of the dreams Join Date: May 2004 Location: British Columbia Posts: 1,943 Thanks: 5 Thanked 32 Times in 19 Posts	I wouldn't say dark matter is all that related to what we understand to be darkness. That is to say I would not claim that a dark room is full of dark matter/energy and when the light switch is hit that this dark matter/energy vacates the room. However dark matter is a wicked thing to think about. __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about. Rumi Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire. Kurt Tucholsky a spoken silence

05-11-2008, 01:30 PM	#33 (permalink)
ziplock Dreamer of the dreams Join Date: May 2004 Location: British Columbia Posts: 1,943 Thanks: 5 Thanked 32 Times in 19 Posts	Dark energy is theorized to make up around 3/4 of the matter/energy of the universe. Dark matter and what can be seen make up the other 1/4. There are different candidates for what form dark matter/energy can take. If you're interested check into it via wikipedia or something. It's a cool concept. __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about. Rumi Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire. Kurt Tucholsky a spoken silence

05-07-2008, 02:34 AM	#22 (permalink)
newbiegreengrow YaHookan Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: In a Van Down By The River Posts: 250 Thanks: 1 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	darkness does exist, it's just defined as the absense of light. just like being cold describes the absense of heat energy. total darknes, or absolutely no light energy available, would not be measurable, since there is no light energy available to measure, therefore nothing to reference. To measure speed, we need a few variables. an object, or some type of energy, a distance, and time. In darkness there is no reference to any type of object or energy, therefore a part of the equation is missing, so it would be deemed immeasurable.

05-08-2008, 06:28 AM	#30 (permalink)
ThEnEeD4DaWeEd TheManWithDaPlan! Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Right behind you! Posts: 215 Thanks: 68 Thanked 14 Times in 12 Posts	I have been reading alot about hw we are actually in the process of collecting dark matter deep underground. They think the only way to get dark mattber by itself is through capturing it as it filters through our earths crust. Pretty cool stuff. Funny thing is all they haven't gotten one dust pube of dark matter. It's only a matter of time. When we get that first spec OH BOY! A bunch of crazy shit will be starting to pop up as not only possible but possible withing a decade of DM being obtained. This is some of what I have read and gathered from the history channel. Check out the universe. AWSOME show!.

05-13-2008, 08:52 PM	#35 (permalink)
Stone420 Jedi Join Date: May 2008 Location: pa Posts: 50 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	lol well yeah i agree with everyone else dark is nothing...unless u wanan talk about dark matter than i got a whole lifetime to talk to u about it __________________ Purple Kush til i die

05-14-2008, 06:38 PM	#37 (permalink)
Stone420 Jedi Join Date: May 2008 Location: pa Posts: 50 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	the only problem with that is we can barely measure Dark Matter as is i mean we know its there we know it makes up about 24% of the known universe its jsut it doesnt react with us or anything we physically can observe lol quantum physics will be the thing to make us go faster than light __________________ Purple Kush til i die

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