What Is The Speed of Dark? 

The speed of dark isn’t fast enough to get me when I’m running up the stairs

*The speed of fast*

Vsauce then: "How to count past infinity" Vsauce now: "Do chairs exist?"

You can also get the shadow blister effect when you pinch your fingers together, and look really closely. When they are REEEEEALLY close together, you can see a shadow blister spawn, connecting them.

imagine being high and watching vsauce

"what is the speed of dark?" what the speed of light isnt

He’s under-appreciated, he has such a uniquely creative and authentic mind. His videos blow open new possibilities and paradigms in your own thinking. It should not be understated how valuable and rare and compelling of a mind he has.

You are not afraid of being alone in the dark you are afraid of not being alone in the dark

wish school science was like this

As a child I was afraid of the dark. Now, with electricity prices, I'm afraid of the lights.

Really cool you've went back and put chapter listings on your videos. You and your tream are good curators (:

I honestly think that science leading to just more questions is a good thing- we won't run out of fun new stuff to investigate and experiment with, it's just more dark to illuminate but we can figure out facsinating new ways to do so faster, and uncover more dark patches.

Micheal makes me feel smart and dumb at the same time. Smh

"The problem with being faster than light is that you live on the darkness." -Probrably sonic

This is such a great piece of work that you do... I really enjoyed this. Thank you so much!

I never seem to understand a single word Michael says in his videos but they are so entertaining and I learn just enough that I can't stop watching lol Great video Michael!!!

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

to be honest, the more science you know the more confusing this question is

The speed of smell

Science is like a tree. Every branch we discover splits into a dozen more we haven’t discovered.

God:bro you're dead Michael:Or am I? *Lives*

Me: Hey Vsauce, you wanna watch some RU-vid videos? Vsauce: But what *ARE* videos? *Funky music plays*

Hands down, one of the best videos ever created on any platform.

This isn't your average everyday darkness. This is ADVANCED DARKNESS.

I'm honestly expecting one day to click a vsauce video titled "why cats land on their feet" and come out questioning my existence as a human.

Wow this was really good and insightful! Thank you!

This video was amazing, it explained a whole new side of learning and stuff.

I always feel like I’ve learned nothing but everything at the same time when watching vsauce

"What is the speed of ignorance?" Karens : *hold my essential oils.*

Your in depth knowledge is unparalleled @vsauce ....huge fan of yours.

I'd like to add something: though it is good to not be too confident in your findings, overly submitting to questioning, makes you question yourself to the point of ignorance. People end up submitting then, to any authority that appears more knowledgeable. Instead of searching for themselves. Do not be overly confident, but the manner in which you grow confidence in both yourself and others, is the doubt of both yourself and others. Challenge yourself. Challenge the others. We are one.

me:Michael lets' go for shopping!!!! Michael:but what exactly *is* shopping....? *(weird music starts at the background)*

Beginning of video: What is the speed of dark? End of video: *WE ARE ALL STUPID AND IGNORANT*

This is one of my all time favorite videos.

This really changed my perspective on science as a whole. Great vid 👍

"The only problem of being faster than light is that you're always stuck in darkness."

“Don’t be scared of the dark. Be scared of the THINGS in the dark.” Personally I despise this quote.

I just found this channel on RU-vid recently, what a gem

This is one of the best videos! THANKS!!!

The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know.

Watching vsauce is like having a science teacher that gets your interest but confuses the shit out of you

"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” -Terry Pratchett

I swear, I watched all his videos but more keep coming up!

"If there's nothing faster than light, then how does the dark get there first?" -Gumball Watterson

Me: Alright, no more Vsauce videos Vsauce: "What is the Speed of Dark" Me: Damnit

3:05: It happens to me when I look at a place and I put my finger in front of my eyes, if I bring it closer to the edge of something, even though the light doesn't even come from my position. that is to say, I can see it when the light is not pointing, I do not see it with shadows, I see it with matter. test it.(not always)

true fact: everyone has nyctophobia when they are a kid. You might grow out of it when you are older, but sometimes it stays

Everybody knows that lemon juice doesn't make you invisible. It's lime juice.

The speed of ignorance is the RU-vid comments section.

this guy still makes videos to this day, yet i'm only able to find videos of his from over 6 years ago

Michael is the only person who can confuse me, but still have my interest in listening

"The problem with being faster than light is that you can only live in darkness."

What Is The Speed of Dank?

I wish you were a teacher of mine whilst growing up. I’m 35 now, and out of all those who taught me, English teachers always made me stop, ponder and think. Thank you.

It's so confusing when but it makes so much sense at the same time

WHY DOES HE KEEP CALLING ME VSAUCE

A wiseman can learn more from a foolish question, than a fool can learn from a wise answer.....

The end was the most heartfelt message i have ever seen. **KIDS WE DO NOT KNOW EVERYTHING** We are all learning and still creating a path to our future, Vsauce has conveyed a great message to continuously be curious about life and never stop asking questions. This is how we get to our destiny, **we don't know everything, but we can try to learn some of it**

7:59 this reminded me of how somone took a big light and a small light and put the big light in back with both on and it made the small light look like it was casting darkness

Made me think of this Terry Pratchett quote: “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."

“What's the speed of dark?" Usain Bolt

the speed of dark is the speed of how fast light will go out basically

Just the title alone blew my mind. I literally never even once thought about it.

4:42 F for the man who was trying to go faster than the speed of dark and got pulled over.

“Being faster than light, leaves you in the darkness” - Sonic the Hedgehog

I ENJOYED LISTEN TO YOUR TEACHING

Thankyou @LLA

"What's the speed of ignorance?" is such a powerful quote, i'm upset this is the first time someone mentions it tbh.

When life gives you lemons, Rob a bank

This is the coolest channel on this platform I swear

This was a video worthwhile to come back to, I have now a few new reflections on the closing thoughts. I used to delight myself with the metaphors Michael used in this video about how science does shed light on the dark but increasingly shows us the things we still don't know the answers to. This very much did influence my interest in science and philosophy and my pursuit of a career in science (not there yet) but now I want to ponder the implications of this metaphor by asking the question of 'what happens if we replace science with pseudoscience, theism, pseudo-intellectualism and other dogmatic and uncritical/non-skeptical belief systems?'. If science sheds light on the unknown while increasing the perimeter of darkness, 'the known unknown', how do these other thought movements work? They still give an answer but it's not enlarging the perimeter of darkness in the same way science or philosophy does. It's giving an answer as a tool in negotiation with the curious to make them quiet down and stop asking questions. The answers are arbitrary or politically useful for the giver of the answers or reflective of norms and customs of the time and place which wrote down and spoke of these answers to questions. They are anything but an attempt at accurately describing the world while provoking new follow-up questions. They are not meant to stoke curiosity, but rather to quell it. So as science works like a flashlight in the dark only revealing some things and pushing the border of the unknown further out with each added flashlight; all of the 'sources of knowledge' other than science and philosophy work by first walking into a tent and then lighting a candle - giving the illusion of shedding light while also showing the places of unknown which raise questions we ought to investigate in the dark folds and corners of the tent. While in this tent, asking of anything that lies beyond it is blasphemy because it is inconceivable that the tent is not the true border of knowledge. Dogmatic people like to think they know what's up and to be confident about it, just as non-dogmatic believers in science and philosophy (to distinguish them from those who don't question science or philosophy) would like to have certain and absolute knowledge. The difference is that believers in science and philosophy and the incremental improvements in our understanding of all things we can question, ponder and explore, we also have learned to tolerate or, as this video subtly eludes to, intentionally seek out all the unknowns. I wish I could know the answers to all the questions I have but I'd rather admit my ignorance and keep my intellectual integrity than to believe something for the feeling of security and other benefits that come with feeling certain about something. Before you can convince a dogmatic believer they're wrong and guide them to the truth, you must first see if they could shake that dogma and admit ignorance. If they remain certain that nothing would be able to change their mind you have nothing you can do but to wait for them to come around on their own. Convincing anyone with a conviction that they're wrong is difficult enough but with some people it is impossible, and that is because of dogma. Dogma can be lost but it is something you can't make people lose, they have to lose it on their own.

"What's the speed of darkness" Ask Sega. They made a hedgehog out of it.

I wonder how many people tried casting a shadow on the moon after this...

I learn more from Vsauce videos than I did in the entirety of school.

11:41 I rarely actually "laugh out loud" but this moment did it for me.

I like how this video passed from physics to philosophy

Darkness is fast but the guy at 4:40 to the left went over the ‘speed limit’ I’ll stop...

Wow! One of the best videos I've ever viewed.

I realised something today..... When one knows that one needs to know more, along with the desire to know more in their heart, they will go places.

Son: Daddy! How fast are shadows!?! Michael: I'm glad you asked,well this one time a guy covered his face in lemon juice (many hours later) Michael: and that's why lobster was fed to prisoners.

He jumps from one topic to another faster than speed of light

When i was a kid i would always think about shadows. Wish this information was available to me back then or maybe not cuzz that would have ruined the fun of thinking upon it. Btw u r just doing wonderful work. Keep up with the good work!

Michael: "whats the speed of ignorance?" Me: "well how fast is the internet?"

Sleep is just an *Extended Blink*

Further adding onto the circle comparison with knowledge, and with how it's shown with a light specifically That dark region where jts not completely clear but not completely dark could metaphorically be the realm of theories, stuff we've not got a complete grasp of yet

I wasn't afraid of dark but now this keeps me up at night

“What is the speed of dark?” Idk but Usain Bolt is pretty damn fast and dark.

“The fear of opening your eyes” that sounds like a phobia I always had, just figuratively.

Intro of the video:menacing vsauce Vsauce after:”shadow” *vsauce music kicks in faster than me throwing a knife*

9y later and I get this in my recandmendations

"Sunsets are beautiful, but look the other way and you can see the Earth's lumbering shadow approaching..." congrats Michael... you just made a shadow sound scary.

Me: Vigorously shaking finger at the Moon with a flashlight at 1am Neighbor: Hunny, the meth heads are outside again!

For people who don't want to watch the entire video, it's the same speed as light.

this is the moment Michael becomes Hiesenberg

i gotta go to bed bro, its becoming *you eclipse*

the only thing that travels faster than darkness is my mom shoe when she throw it at me

I am currently working on, "The Speed of Reflection" -Kelty Loranlo Miller -Kelty'loranlo -KLM

Vsauce at 3am when I try to sleep My brain: watch it Me: why My brain: do it

person: the sunset is so pretty! person 2: look at the sun setting! me: look at the the shadow of the earth coming closer!

Shadows are getting their first kiss faster than me.