Physicists Found Something That Can Move Faster Than Light: The Darkness Inside It

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

Scientists experimentally confirmed what we’ve known to be true for half a century—darkness can “travel” faster than light.

Physicists Found Something That Can Move Faster Than Light: The Darkness Inside It

For the first time, physicists have observed that 'holes' in light can move faster than the light itself. They're known as phase singularities or optical vortices, and since the 1970s, scientists have predicted that, just as eddies in a river can move faster than the flowing water around them, so too can whirlpools in a wave of light outrun the light they're embedded within. This does not break relativity, which states that nothing can travel fa…

Faster Than Light — But Not What You Think: The Strange Physics of Superluminal Vortices

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light. That’s the rule. Einstein said so. A century of physics has backed him up. And yet, a team of researchers has demonstrated that certain wave phenomena — specifically, vortices embedded in light and radio pulses — can propagate at velocities exceeding the cosmic speed limit without violating a single law of physics. This isn’t science fiction. It isn’t a misunderstanding. And it definitely isn’t the…