2006-10-16 09:36:35 · 8 answers · asked by HESHAM 1 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
maybe
2006-10-16 09:39:16 · answer #1 · answered by chuco 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Light speed already exists, but for humans to achieve such velocity on their own it seems all but impossible. It may happen someday that humans can travel at such speeds, but if so, it'll be a long time down the road after much more of science is understood.
2006-10-16 09:46:05 · answer #2 · answered by Shadow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably not.
Einstein's equations pretty much show that mass increases as speed approaches light - and to accelerate an object to the speed of light requires infinite energy.
2006-10-16 09:45:20 · answer #3 · answered by jbtascam 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'We' can never travel at the speed of light due to those damn relativity equations.
Light is not like us and is able to travel so quickly due to having a much lower mass than 'us'.
We will be able to travel farther distances than travelling at the speed of light and thus 'appear' to have such a high velocity - the way many scientists and physicists think is to bend timespace and thus jump through shortcuts (like a wormhole) to get from A-Z without travelling through all the points in between.
I do believe that such technology will be with us or at least a theory but as for humans travelling at light speed - we would return to see all our freinds and family dead of old age and also have to spend many years enduring great acceleration to reach the speed of light - would you want to spend that long in a kind of aeroplane taking-off mode?
2006-10-16 10:15:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not according to Einstein, but according to Star Trek, we need to form a warp bubble, which would allow us to travel thousands of times faster than the speed of light -- but that is, of course, fantasy.
2006-10-16 15:04:02 · answer #5 · answered by yaremah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's been proved we can't. However, Stephen Hawking suggests that there is another way. Traveling through a "worm hole". It is a theory that you can bend space and go from point A to point B as easily as going next door.
Read Hawking's books. They are fascinating.
2006-10-17 08:23:53 · answer #6 · answered by amish-robot 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can have light speed now. Just dont buy as many uppers, and your load will lighten.
2006-10-16 15:25:15 · answer #7 · answered by pathstr8 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't we have light speed right now?
2006-10-16 09:38:14 · answer #8 · answered by crazgrss 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋