Is dark faster than light?

In response to last week's question, “Is dark faster than light?”, my dad realized that it gets dark as early as 4:30pm in the winter, so this time of year, dark gets here quicker.

My colleague Chris knows that “both a brewmeister and a drunk would both agree with a resounding ‘yes’ that dark stout beer gets you drunker a lot faster than any light beer presently on the market.” Yet my leadership guru Marya understands that “If you view this from a wine stand point: chardonnay (light) is oh so tasty and it goes down very fast. However, a nice cabernet (dark), must be enjoyed sip by sip, such as Kendall Jackson. So light is faster than dark (and yes, everything in life can be compared to wine)!” But my neighbor Al countered, “Yes, Dark is faster, but not as fast as tequila.”

My sailing buddy Mike, who has recently rediscovered model railroading, wrote, “Don’t know if dark is faster, but I recall the old SuperCar show (gotta love marionetronics like SuperCar or another fav Fireball XL5) where the speedometer on the SuperCar had these markings: Speed of Sound <> Speed of Heat <> Speed of Light. Speed of Heat?”

While my birthday bud Jon would not take a side saying, “Don't know--can't see it,” my cousin Wes concluded that from the moral perspective, it varies. The dark, evil forces outpaced the positive (light) from 1933-1941 in Nazi Germany. Yet perhaps light's speed exceeded the speed of darkness from 1941-1945 as the Allies defeated the Axis in WWII. The recent post-modern culture might be considered dark exceeding light as it denies the knowledge of truth.

Thankfully, my neighbor and civil (in many ways) engineer Bob provided a practical solution: To prove that dark is faster than light, stand in an illuminated room in front of a closed, dark closet, then slowly open the closet door. You will see the light slowly enter the closet, but since the dark is so fast, you will not be able to see the dark leave thecloset. And if you try this then you have too much time on your hands just like the person that developed this experiment(*). My friend Tony, who provided the question, knew of a similar experiment by his dad.

Please share your thoughts about "things that make you go 'Hmmm' ":

Why is a toilet called a head when that is the last choice for a body part to use it?

Live well...laugh often..be happy and have a good week…
Hal

Good News: The sun will be directly over the equator on evening of Fri, March 20 (the Vernal Equinox). Yahoo! Spring starts Friday!

(*) Bob provided the following link about a more scientific approach in the development of theories around dark matter space vehicles
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/2141/dark-energy-spacecraft-could-fly-faster-light