is it theoritically possible to travel faster than light?

Question

if yes or no, why?

Answer 1

As you approach the speed of light your relativic mass approaches infinity (according to einstein's theory e=mc^2) and your acceleration approaches 0. since your mass would be infinite it would require an infinite amount of energy. We have no way of obtaining an infinite amount of energy and since nothing but light can go the speed of light, nothing can go faster. (you have to go the speed of light first in order to go faster than it)

Answer 2

yes
there has always thought to be limits to speed since people created boats. boats have what is know as a hull speed. hull speed is the speed where a sail boat can not go faster in the water. the boat pushes a wave in front of it and to climb over it it takes a lot more energy.with the invention of motor boats this was possible
as a jet nears the speed of sound it too starts pushing a wave this time of air pressure. it was once thought one could not go faster than the speed of sound. we know this to not be true.
so looking back at the past it looks possible that one day we may travel faster than light. the power needed would be extremely great and technology is probably somewhere around 1000 years away, but i believe the human race could do it

Answer 3

Yes and no. Everything in this universe is made of atoms, which are essentially special groupings of electricity. The electrons that make up the atom's outer shell move around in the electron cloud, at the speed of light. How could it be possible to travel faster than the composition of what everything is made of? Another example is fiber optic cables. They are the fastest means of communication that we know of, because their limit is the speed of light.

My case in point is that it is not possible in reality simply because of the limitations of nature. There is nothing faster than the speed of light. Since you asked if it was theoretically possible though, I said yes because as said before, so many theories that are "theoretically possible" are in reality impossible, even though they are in theory correct.

Answer 4

Well.... maybe

Unfortunately there is no way we can know for sure right now. We have no way of even reaching something close to that speed. Working on "theoretically" though, right now we have to say no. This is because light can't go faster than the speed of light. For example, if someone throws a ball at you from a moving car, the ball moves at the speed of the throw plus the speed of the car. They have found that light travels at the speed of light regardless of direction.

Answer 5

No. E = MC2

As an object approaches the speed of light its mass grows to infinity so it would take an infinite amount of energy to propel it to the speed of light. There is no source of energy that large.

Traveling near the speed of light will still have a very helping effect though. As we near the speed of light relative to our home planet time slows so that we could theoretically travel to other planets and survive but when we arrived back to our point of origin our home lands and relatives would probably be extinct.

Answer 6

Yes, because of the fact that it is 'theoritically'

Answer 7

Theoretically, sure...If the speed of light is 300,000 kilometers per second. I can imagine something traveling 500,00 kilometers per sec...in theory most things are possible.

Answer 8

I read one time in a science magazine that a light beam was used in an experiment and that (if I remember right) the beam was accelerated somehow..... sorry about the lack of detail. They did conclude that it was possible......

Answer 9

in my warped mind yes but it would take a lot of torque to do so
say you had a gear 1 km in diameter and a gear 300000 km in diameter by moving the larger gear 60rpm that would make the smaller gear turn at the speed of light

Answer 10

Yes. I don't know if anyone has noticed but there is Nothing impossible. Just because we haven't be able to do it doesn't mean it's not going to happen. So, sure, it's possible :-)