if one travels faster than the speed of light what would happen?

Answer 1

it's dark when you arrive.

Answer 2

so far no experiment has disprove Einstein law of relativity, to put simply no we can go faster than light. if we all accept that as final we may aswell go back up the trees and life there for good.

examples of what people believe that will never happen
1/ horseless carriages
2/ flying
3/ senting people to the moon

''Theoretically, strange things happen when you exceed the speed of light". Time travel, for one thing, and a breakdown in cause and effect. an example of this is hitting a target with a gun that shoots bullets faster than the speed of light. "Some observers would see the bullet hit the target before they saw the shooter fire the gun". "Since one of the guiding principles of relativity is that all physical laws are the same to all observers, this violation of causality would be a big problem."

i got this quote from the site below

mass will increase to infinte as would energy to propel you towards the speed of light, perhaps then (this is what i think) if you nullified the mass by placing your craft into an electro-magnetic field???

i think all the laws of physis that we know now would be turn upside down and inside out, if or when we ever travel faster than the speed of light. this does scare a lot of people and therefore they ignore the possibilities by saying it can't never happen including Einstein. Einstein has been proven inaccurate in other areas over the years. he was a great man and hopefully we have more like him in the future.

Answer 3

The closer you get to the speed of light, the more energy it takes to accelerate you. For an object that weighs anything at all actually to reach the speed of light should theoretically take an infinite amount of energy so it would be impossible.

Particles which have negative mass and always travel faster than light have been theorised about (tachyons) but as far as I'm aware there's no reasons to think they might actually exist. The theory suggests that if they were to exist, they would probably be travelling backwards in time.

So, assuming you were able to convert yourself entirely into tachyons, for the duration of your journey faster than the speed of light you would be going backwards in time.

Isn't that how superluminal drives are meant to work in Star Wars (minus the going back in time bit)?

Answer 4

Theoretically impossible, as the previous man said. Though he was incorrect. You will not notice, looking at the clock, that the clock is going slower when you aproach the SOL. For you, your clock will go the same way.
The speed of light in some liquids or matters is less then C. In this case a particle can travel in this liquid or matter with the speed faster than speed of light. Upon this, the particle (in case it is electrically charged) emits light with a cone front (like a plane emits sound while flying with speed higher than speed of sound in the air). Such emission of light was experimentally observed and is known as Vavilov-Cherenkov emission.

Answer 5

There are some difficulties with travelling with the speed of light (C). First of all we need and infinite force to accelerate a mass to the speed of light as predicted by special relativity. Secondly if someone do so and he is travelling with speed of light he feels nothing but a normal trip. But a person who is at rest sees some observations about the person travelling with velocity C as suggested by the lorentz transformation. Time dilation, length contraction, and mass gain.

Answer 6

Hey Ro, how ya doin' ?
If you work Einstein's formula out, regarding mass in motion; and you use the speed of light for the 'V' (velocity) variable...you come to a point where you need to divide by zero. This is undefined in our math system, so we say ,"you can't travel at the speed of light." Pretty lame, huh?
I'm willing to bet we can exceed the speed of light, and I'd guess that the result would be, We'll get there sooner! nothing more !
Butch

Answer 7

faster that light speed travel is impossible, however if one was to travel faster than the speed of light i would assume time travel would become possible.

Answer 8

possible! there is a theory that a special particle exists called graviton that is responsible for gravity force and gives ability to make speeds higher than speed of light. theoreticaly, if you had a speed of light and higher, you'd appear inhyperspace where time, distance are shorter than in reality. so you'd travel as far as you can( the main problem is energy that is needed for developing such speed). nothing would ever happen to you-you are in non-inertial system. so yes, it is possible.

Your age would chage slowly comparing to changes of age on Earth.

Answer 9

Einstein theorized that at the speed of light that time stops. If you could go faster theoretically you could go back in time. You have to ask yourself, can matter survive at the speed of light? This is the real issue.

Answer 10

Theoretically impossible.
The closer you get to the speed of light the heaver you will become and therefor the more energy it will take to get to the speed of light.
Also the closer you get to the speed of light the slower time will go. Until it stops all together if you reach the speed of light. which means you will not get to the speed of light.
Think of it this way....The way to see a clock is you are seeing the light coming off that clock. If you were able to travel away from that clock at approaching the speed of light(SOL)... You would be seeing the clock's time go slower and slower... As you approach the SOL you will see the time stop. And if time stops...you stop...
Hope that helps.

Answer 11

Although impossible in this day and age. Not improbably in the future. Think on this - Neville Schute wrote a book 'On the Beaches' about an atomic explosion, long before it happened. Has nobody heard of "Star Trek", and time warp?