I’ll Take That in a Flashlight Please

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For the first time, scientists detected negative light in human history. The discovery, known as “darker than darkness,” tests the basic understanding of natural light phenomena. Research opportunities in quantum physics have expanded through the discovery of negative frequency photons, which hold potential implications that enhance our understanding of the universe.

Edwin O.
May 7, 2025
“It’s darker than darkness” ― Negative light spotted for the first time in human history

I think it would be cool to have a flashlight that projected negative light. You could “shine” it at your floor, wall, etc. and make it appear as a black featureless hole in your living room. You could tell your kids you are getting rid of the dog and “shine” it at Fido sleeping in the corner.

Or how about a laser pointer to play with your cat?

But the best use would be to shine it on your face for a Halloween mask.

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17 thoughts on “I’ll Take That in a Flashlight Please”

  1. I think a better use would be to counter those badge-bullies who like to deliberately shine their lights in your eyes and/or cameras.

  2. So now we might actually be able to answer the age old question: what is the speed of dark?

  3. Physics is finally catching up. I claim to be one of the early inventors of the dark emitting diode. Put current through it and nothing comes out.

  4. This caused my bull$hit detector to go off. Cold fusion anyone? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs. Get back to me when a half dozen reputable physics labs around the globe have experimentally confirmed the results with greater than four sigma confidence

      • Definitely makes for interesting thought experiments.

    • yeah, huh.

      Next we’ll discover things colder than 0Kelvin.

      This is what happens when “scientists” think math *is* reality, instead of a tool to study reality. This is discovering how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

      Science has died the same death the medical industry suffered during the lockdowns.

        • If it were true…. We just *doubled* the entire radio spectrum! 😀

          Negative frequency, negative movement… silly as these things are (and they *are*), they can occasionally have “utility”… in math *only* of course.

          Here’s an example using “negative area”:

          “How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented”
          https://youtu.be/cUzklzVXJwo

    • Why would you think that? Just because the next article was about giant space amoebas?

  5. I’d carry a tactical negative flashlight. Ill beam it in their eyes and I disappear.

  6. There was a children’s story many years ago about a child who had a “flashdark” – an instrument that projected darkness. The concept is theoretically possible, using the same technology that noise-cancelling microphones use. Project light waves that are the exact inverse of the received light, and they will cancel out. But I doubt we will ever see it. (pun intended!)

  7. Ah, yes, the infamous darkons.

    They are easily utilized in small, portable, battery-powered devices. However, they do not operate for very long, as the batteries get full of all the photons they suck out of the space around them via darkons, and once the batteries are full, they can’t power the darkon emitter any more, so it stops working.

  8. I was always under the impression that “light” is just a wavelength?
    And like cold being the absence on heat.
    Darkness is just the absence of those wavelengths.
    “Negative frequency photons”, sounds like someone looking for a research grant.
    Someone please txt. DOGE. Nip this crap in the bud.

  9. I clicked. And I was very disappointed the negative photons weren’t emitted by dark matter or anti-matter.

    • Proof of dark matter would be a HUGE deal.

      The antimatter thing is interesting. We can make anti-matter. What does it emit when it cools off? Anti-photons?

      Copilot says:

      Antimatter doesn’t emit “anti-photons”—it emits regular photons, just like normal matter does!

      In particle physics, photons are their own antiparticles, meaning there isn’t a separate “anti-photon.” When antimatter annihilates with matter (like an electron meeting a positron), the energy released often comes in the form of photons, which are the same as those emitted in ordinary processes involving matter. So, even though antimatter is fascinatingly different from normal matter, the light it produces is indistinguishable from any other photons.

      Pretty wild, right? Antimatter plays by its own strange set of rules, but in the end, it still shines like everything else!

      • *adjusts speculative Sci-Fi hat*

        What if Dark Matter *Is* (are?) anti-photons?
        If photons have mass and are detectable via their frequencies, then Anti-photons would, at first glance, have *no* frequency, yet retain their mass which would fit the conundrum of dark matter: it’s existence has only been *inferred* via it’s gravitational effects.

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