Can it be proven that there is nothing faster than the speed of light? How?

Question

Feel free to research your answer or just make up bs, whatever you like!

Answer 1

It cannot be proven yet but in the future I think so. At 786,000 miles per second (light speed) it would take us 4 years to go to the nearest star system. It takes us 6 months to go to mars, and yet a few 100 years ago it took 6 months to cross the ocean from europe.
The answer to crossing from europe to america was simple yet crippled by lack of education, and religious rulers using fear, and superstitions kept humans in exploration bind.
I think the answer to space travel , and breaking the speed of light is so simple we are looking at it. It;s the old saying not seeing the forrest for the trees in the way.

Answer 2

Relativity says that no material object can attain the speed of light because the closer it gets to that velocity the more massive it will become. At the speed of light the object would have infinite mass (..all the mass in the universe). This theory has been shown to be valid in high-energy accelerators where particles attain speeds approaching light speed and their mass has been observed to increase in accordance with relativity.

Unfortunately, some people who think they know some science spout off with answers that are just plain wrong.

You should disregard this statement from someone who said, "the speed of light can't be proven." That's absolute hogwash. The speed of light has been measured over and over in countless experiments.

Then there's another wrong answer from someone who said that the neutrino can move faster than the speed of light. They even cite a web page for verification. Too bad they didn't read the web page. It says that the neutrino can have a velocity CLOSE to the speed of light. Nothing with ANY mass can even reach light speed, let alone go faster. Here are the masses of three types of neutrinos --
ELECTRON NEUTRINO -- less than 10^ minus 8
MUON NEUTRINO -- less than .0003
TAU NEUTRINO -- less than .033

Answer 3

There are too many concepts here that get messed up:

1. Einstein did not say that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. His theory states that anything that has mass and starts out at a speed below that of light can never accelerate enough to reach light speed. There could theoretically be massless particles that always travel above the speed of light.

2. Traveling at light speed means that time stops for that traveller. If you were able to travel to the nearest star at light speed, it would seem like it took 4 years to earth observers, but to the traveller, it would have taken only the time to accellerate to light speed and the time to decellerate back to zero. Because while travelling at light speed, time stopped for you. So it would seem like you travelled 4 light years in a few months (accelerating a living human to the speed of light at the maximum survivable accel. rate would take months), and therefore seemed like you travelled at many times the speed of light.

Answer 4

I think the only way to know that for sure would be to travel the speed of light and find out if something is traveling faster than you. I personally don't think we can ever find out for sure because we would have to be energy to travel that fast. But, who knows. The mysteries of the universe are infinite. Just when we think we "know" something, scientists discover something else that changes everything. Perhaps someone will come up with a mathmatical equations that will prove, for example, that "Xena" particles travel faster than light. Of course, the scientist who made the discovery would get to name the particle and clearly he would be a geek (like me), hence the name Xena.

Answer 5

The answer is simply "NO." But my point here ist to give a bs answer. The answer is "yes." The evidence ist roadrunner. He's much faster than the coyote. No matter how fast the coyote tries to catch the bird, he can't. He's just too fast. Faster than the speed of light (beep beep).

Answer 6

Well, the current theory is of course "no", but the idea of quantum entanglement suggests "action at a distance." This would be like exceeding speed of light for certain special cases.

However, to your point, I don't konw if it is possible to PROVE anything scientific, you only get more and more confirmation of the current theory until an exception is found. The current theory says that c cannot be exceeded.

Answer 7

Well, some things can get to another location faster than light. Whether or not they travel is a good question. Quantum tunneling is used in commercial products already.

Answer 8

This can never be proven. Simple.

Today we can state that "to the best of our knowledge we have not observed anything that travels faster than light.".

Tomorrow Mr.ABC can observe a particle that does travel faster than light and he can say that "New particle X travel faster than light".

Answer 9

You see, that silly Skilla says that the speed of light cannot be proven. Why do people talk out of their hats.

The speed of light can be measured quite accurately. I would have thought that was proof enough.

Dingbat!

Answer 10

As Ahab said, it can't be proven that anything is faster that light. In fact the speed of light can't be proven, nor can the nature of light be defined. All we have are elaborate "theories" so complex that most can't understand them, and old enough that they are accepted as facts by most.