which does light travel faster through?

Question

Light or darkness..?

it seems like its easier to hear in the dark. but that just might be your senses being more alert..

Answer 1

The same.

Answer 2

Neither. But light travels fastest in a vacuum and gets slower in gases, liquids, and solids. When most people talk about 'the speed of light,' they mean the fastest speed of light - when it travels in a vacuum.



Light or darkness doesn't affect sound. However, if you are less distracted by visual stimuli, you might perceive the sounds better.



Sound travels slower than light and needs to travel through a gas, solid, or liquid. Sound cannot travel through a vacuum - so all the space movies that have loud space ships that you hear in space are unrealistic.

Answer 3

It may be easier to hear in the dark--but that has nothing to do with the speed of light, which is the same in light or darkness (and is more than 800,000 times the speed of sound, BTW).

Answer 4

Light thinks it travels faster than darkness, but it's wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds darkness has already got there first and is waiting for it.

Answer 5

Light travels at a constant speed



Don't mix that up with how eyesight perceives light

When it is dark we will obviously be aware of a source of light if it occurs unexpectedly more so than if it was daylight.

Answer 6

Sound travels in the form of longitudinal waves. Not light waves.

Answer 7

darkness too I think.



smart question ;-)