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Experiment Makes Something Move at 104% of Speed of Light! The Darkness Inside

2026-04-23 Science & Technology
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Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about an experiment that makes something move faster than light - the dark holes inside the light waves Links: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10209-z https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17675 Amaterasu particle: https://youtu.be/RxP6if7G7AM #science #physics #speedoflight 0:00 Challenging the fundamental rule about the speed of light 1:00 Why FTL should be impossible 2:50 New research - optical vortices (dark holes) 4:40 Breakthrough experiment and what was achieved 5:55 Main discoveries 6:30 No physics are broken 7:18 Why this matters 8:30 Physical applications? 9:30 Conclusions 10:00 What's next? Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF The hardware used to record these videos: New Camera: https://amzn.to/4pCVINS CPU: https://amzn.to/4qXIaxC Video Card: https://amzn.to/2M1W26C Motherboard: https://amzn.to/2JYGiQQ RAM: https://amzn.to/2Mwy2t4 PSU: https://amzn.to/2LZcrIH Case: https://amzn.to/2MwJZz4 Microphone: https://amzn.to/2t5jTv0 Mixer: https://amzn.to/2JOL0oF Recording and Editing: https://amzn.to/2LX6uvU Some of the above are affiliate links, meaning I would get a (very small) percentage of the price paid. Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Credit: Mark Garlick www.markgarlick.com Kaminer et al., Nature, 2026 TxAlien CC BY SA 3.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light#/media/File:Tachyon04s.gif E-karimi CC BY SA 3.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_vortex#/media/File:Helix_oam.png Licenses used: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and relevant Creative Commons licenses

Top Comments (10)

@rozzgrey801 2026-04-23

The speed of gossip travels faster than light, but doesn't violate causality as no useful information is transmitted.

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@rajmathew6220 2026-04-23

The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.

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@fernbedek6302 2026-04-23

The speed of dark proven faster than the speed of light?

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@jscarad 2026-04-23

Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news. - Douglas Adams

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@superactivitylad 2026-04-24

the word "something" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here

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@andrewepp6763 2026-04-23

Reminds me of one of my favourite quotes from the “watchmen” graphic novel. Dr. Manhattan says "I have walked across the surface of the sun. I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast that they could hardly be said to have occurred at all.”

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@MOX_MUSIC_0 2026-04-23

We all wondered about the speed of light, when we should have been thinking about the speed of DARK!

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@501Mobius 2026-04-23

Those are interference patterns that are moving. Like radio waves wave fronts in a metal waveguide when it goes into a curved part. My physics teacher was a radar engineer and proved that the wave fronts moved faster than the speed of light. But, it was not a physical wave. People have longed made a joke that the speed of dark is faster than the speed of light.

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@luipaardprint 2026-04-23

0:15 technically speaking the rule is nothing can accelerate beyond the speed of light. There’s no rule that if you happen to already be travelling faster you’ll be pulled over by the light police.

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@hugolandheer7008 2026-04-23

Nothing will ever violate the rules of the universe. It can (and surely will) violate our limited knowledge of those rules.

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