Can we travel at the speed of light or even faster?

Question

okay according to the law of relativity the mass of a body increases when it is traveling at great velocities.. Lets just say that an object is travelin at da speed of light which means dat the mass of the object according to the equation becomes infinite.. if this is so the gravitional field around the body should all so be infinite (F=GMm) so basically v cant travel at that speed...n all electromagnetic waves travel at the speed of light so will this object become an electromagnetic wave or sumthing else or remain unchanged.. help wth dis will u..

Answer 1

From what I understand speed is based on time,distance, and energy. If one wants to travel faster than the speed of light one must be able to manipulate on of these variables. Under stand that if one stopped time, life would not exist in the universe, everything would be just matter, as it would remain stationary.With bring me to my next point, distance. The shortest distance between 2 objects is a straight line. Light light travels in a straight line unless it encounters obstructions such a gravity or mass, which both effect speed, so light does not always take the fastest path, as it may have been curved by gravity. Light also has a mass, as in it has weight. It takes energy to power the light particles. So, in theory it is possible to make anything in the universe travel at the speed of light, regardless of size. But the critics of this would say that the energy required would be impossible to achieve. Well if you put your self in space, your are weightless, aka not affected by gravity. That means that it is possible to travel at or beyond the speed of light, as long as it doesn't collide with something traveling at a speed less than it.

Answer 2

According to current knowledge, faster-than-light travel is impossible, since doing so would require more energy than that available in our entire galaxy. However, I read somewhere that it might be possible if we can travel in 10 dimensions. I have not read it yet, but I heard the book The Physics of Star Trek, written by real scientists, touches on this. Michio Kaku also mentioned something about this, if memory serves.

With electromagnetic shielding technology, which is currently in the research stage as I hear, it may be possible to travel as fast as 2/3c, a vast improvement over where we are now.

It would be nice to be able to make it Mars in a matter of hours instead of years or months...

Answer 3

According to popular theory, as you approach the speed of light, your mass increases exponentially and the power it takes to push it even faster increase as well. That's the key, as your mass becomes infinite, so does the amount of power it takes to increase your speed so technically, you could get .9999999% of the way to the speed of light but generating the infinite amount of power to push you that extra little bit is impossible.

Do I believe it is impossible to exceed the speed of light? No, simply because what I do believe is that what would know about the laws of the universe is like a drop of water compared to the Pacific ocean.

Answer 4

Yes for sure you can travel at the speed of light, but faster I have no information. Now I know that it sounds awful I mean what I have said. But the fact remains there exists many worlds beyond our world & there exists science which are beyond the understandings of our level of science. I would be brief however in case you want more information let me know I will recommend you books on metaphysics which is easily understood & that which is part of ciriculam of universaties which will explain the fantastic phenomenon.
First of all understand that the idea of travelling at the speed of light sound sounds absurd as we relate everything & anything to our physical body & its attributes. If what we adopt our body in another form the ASTRAL BODY which can travel at the speed of light? It is difficult to digest however the invitation remains to find out more.

Answer 5

The problem is that you can't get there from here. As you get closer to the speed of light, mass increases without limit, making it progressively more difficult to go faster yet. But the gravitational field is so small that it is not significant with respect to other effects.

Answer 6

We r talking only within,at , our present state of knowledge.
At the big-bang in a instant the core energy exploded and travelled distances in seconds what light now will take years to meet.
It is my surmise that any and all mass travelling at the speed of light will be reduced to the size of a light particle/ shape of light wave/ and the energy of that light .
for clarity over this, contemplate on the genius of the primordeal static chunk of energy that shook itself up and burst forth diversified, into let there be light 3 forms of kinetic might.

Answer 7

well no, because of the stucure of atoms, if we travel faster than light speed, some of the atoms will lose its gravity, which cause it to fall apart, (harry potter, apparation, result, you can left something behind, for example,ear)

if we travel in object, same results, if we were about to collsion with other object that is also traveling in light speed, sonic boom is created

Answer 8

It is my belief that when "we" reach the speed of light after it has been given its intitial inertia (blast, push, energy, etc.), then another force takes over and draws that light even faster to its next "level" or destination which is beyond our measuring/detection systems. From there, it is drawn to bodies in space and recycled as "slower" energy (300km/s) which in turn is emitted as light, heat and sound energy.

Answer 9

If you travel just below the speed of light do the orbiting electrons in your atoms exceed the speed of light making their rotations or do they stop?

Answer 10

When something becomes infinitely dense...it collapses on itself and becomes a sort-of...black hole. So once you approach critical speed.....you will also be approaching critical mass...and thus you can never achieve both