Talk:The Speed of Dark
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He wasn't a programmer. He worked at a phamaceutical company. there's a difference.
He refers to himself as a "bioinformatics specialist" (page 298 of Del Rey - Reprint edition (June 28, 2005)). He does indeed work at a pharmaceutical company, analyzing patterns (many references throughout the book). --eLowar 16:17, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] ...Huh?
I just reverted three edits by Spiffytech, wherin he/she replaced the page with this:
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- The speed of dark is the speed of light (186,000 miles per second)
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- The speed of light is the speed at which a ray of light approaches any given point in space. Since darkness is the absence of light, the speed of dark is the speed at which a light leaves any given point in space. This speed is equivalent to the speed of light.
Now, I'm no expert on such things but it sounds like nonsense to me (If it isn't, let's discuss here how to get it included). Possible Original Research and all that too, completely unsourced, and so on and so forth. However I won't call it vandalism: He/she did put "See also The Speed of Dark (Novel)" (now a redirect here) at the top of the page, and moved this article there (although just by cutting and pasting, and forgot to move the talk page... a real messy job, especially considering the other pages that link here). Weird stuff... -- Antepenultimate 02:34, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Reason for my editing
The reason I modified the "Speed of Dark" article is because I see enough people mention the Speed of Dark (chiefly on T-shirts) that I thought there should be a place on Wikipedia where it was addressed, in case someone looked it up. Not knowing if there is another real answer, I applied logic to the matter, and came to the conclusion above. I understand if you feel that it's too nonsensical to be in Wikipedia.
I'm sorry for the messy job of redirecting- I'm rather new to it. Spiffytech 04:38, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
