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proof that you block light, traveling at infinite speed with zero substance

means The dark shape cast on a surface when an object blocks a source of light, or more loosely any patch of relative darkness, dimness, or a faint imitation of something.

from From Old English 'sceadu,' meaning shade, shadow, or darkness — the same root that also gives us 'shade,' the two words splitting like a forked path from one Germanic ancestor (compare Old High German 'scato'). It reaches back to a Proto-Germanic root meaning shade or screen, and scholars trace it further to a Proto-Indo-European root '*skot-' meaning dark or shade, a possible cousin of the Greek 'skotos,' darkness. So the word has always lived in the dim places, long before anyone measured how fast they travel.

no speed limit
shadows can outrun light across distant surfaces
weightless
absence of light, made of nothing at all
earth's shadow
visible at dusk as a blue band rising
eclipse maker
the moon's shadow paints the sun dark
sundial brain
humanity told time by shadows for millennia
for instance

shadow of the colossus — 2005 playstation 2 game where you climb and fight 16 giant creatures

shadow the hedgehog — video game character introduced in sonic adventure 2, 2001

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