2006-08-30 04:26:55 · 24 answers · asked by kitz 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
If you are looking for something "real" (meaning something that has been proven to work), than the answer would be light, which travels at roughly 299,792,458 miles per second.
If it is the theoretical you seek than the answer would be a Tachyon; it's speed is much greater than that of light.
For a more humerous answer I would say the fat guy in the office going after the last doughnut in the box!
2006-08-30 05:01:43 · answer #1 · answered by Krynne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean, besides light...? We have accelerated many particles to near-light speed. There are many heavenly bodies that travel much faster than any man made object.
Look up the star with the largest 'proper motion', which is a relative measure of how fast it is moving compared to the earth (which is also moving.) One of them, Barnard's Star, will move an angular distance of almost the width of the Moon in the next hundred years. That doesn't sound like much, but it works out to quite a high number of miles per hour!
Further from our own neck of space, astronomers have observed a supernova remnant that is being blasted through space by the force of its own asymmetric explosion at a million miles per hour or more!
As far as the fastest man -made object, I think it is one of the Voyager probes, which has left the Solar System and is expected to travel to the nearest star.. in something like ten thousand years.
It has also been said, humorously, that bad news and rumors are the only things that travel FTL.
2006-08-30 04:54:39 · answer #2 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
definite, human beings will finally commute to and colonize different action picture star structures, in spite of even if if we improve technologies that helps superluminal commute. If it appears that evidently superluminal commute is a actual impossibility, i think of that sometime, interior the *distant* destiny, we would be waiting to commute to different galaxies by using putting human beings in stasis, or by using accelerating our ships to a intense sufficient proportion of c that the holiday will basically take a count of days for the occupants. yet that heavily isn't for an exceptionally, very long term. even if if we improve the technologies to realize close to-c interior some hundred years, the holiday itself will take thousands and thousands. And, if superluminal commute finally ends up being possible, human beings will finally commute to each galaxy interior the universe, probable beginning interior the subsequent thousand years.
2016-11-06 01:52:15 · answer #3 · answered by sokin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quantum physicists have theories, but the only thing they can prove is a photon travelling at the speed of light.
2006-08-30 04:30:30 · answer #4 · answered by piratehooker108 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A tachyon. Moves at infinite speed. Defies the law of causality.
2006-08-30 04:30:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Light.
2006-08-30 04:32:43 · answer #6 · answered by mykidsRmylife 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A date with Paris Hilton.
2006-08-30 04:28:52 · answer #7 · answered by rabble rouser 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The speed of light.
2006-08-30 04:29:01 · answer #8 · answered by it's me! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's either the speed of light or a photon. I think.
2006-08-30 04:33:40 · answer #9 · answered by Paradox3883 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have to say my friend's motorcycle. It's really fast. It's a 1000 cc Yamaha YZF-R1!
2006-08-30 04:36:13 · answer #10 · answered by kangnamsuperman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋