{"id":245387,"date":"2026-10-14T17:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T22:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/einstein-was-right-darkness-can-travel-faster-than-light-without-breaking-relativity"},"modified":"2026-10-14T17:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T22:03:22","slug":"einstein-was-right-darkness-can-travel-faster-than-light-without-breaking-relativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/einstein-was-right-darkness-can-travel-faster-than-light-without-breaking-relativity","title":{"rendered":"Einstein was right: Darkness can travel faster than light without breaking relativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/einstein-was-right-darkness-can-travel-faster-than-light-without-breaking-relativity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dark points within a changing wave pattern can shift faster than light, even while the waves carrying energy move far more slowly. An electron microscopy experiment has tracked that counterintuitive behavior in a thin material sample.<\/p>\n<p>The moving features are locations where a measured wave field cancels to zero. Their motion describes an evolving pattern, so it does not provide a way to send information faster than light.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-10209-z\">Nature<\/a>, was led by researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Technion-Israel Institute of Technology<\/a>. Tomer Bucher and Alexey Gorlach worked with Ido Kaminer\u2019s team and an international collaboration to map these optical phase singularities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark points within a changing wave pattern can shift faster than light, even while the waves carrying energy move far more slowly. An electron microscopy experiment has tracked that counterintuitive behavior in a thin material sample. The moving features are locations where a measured wave field cancels to zero. Their motion describes an evolving pattern, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}