Dosen't count burning up.
2007-01-05 10:21:58 · 27 answers · asked by ? 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
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no, i only got up to about 20mph
2007-01-09 09:42:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are hypothetical particles called Tachyons that can only go faster than light. Their existence is not forbidden by Special Relativity. They do, however, have the peculiar property that when they give off energy, they speed up instead of slowing down. It is therefore thought that if Tachyons exist, they cannot interact in any way with normal matter, because otherwise you could extract an infinite amount of energy from a single Tachyon, as it went faster and faster. If you can't interact with it in any way, how would you know it was there?
2007-01-05 18:29:44 · answer #2 · answered by cosmo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As of now no. To travel and explore the rest of our solar system we must eventually find a way because it would basically be impossible to get anywhere past the distance of Mars in a reasonable time frame without being able to go that fast. That or we must eventually discover a way to bend space.
2007-01-05 18:44:33 · answer #3 · answered by Mendeng 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't go faster than the speed of light, but you CAN go faster than light. Light slows down when it enters a medium, so it's possible to move faster than light in that medium. You'll produce a shock wave when you do known as Chrenkov radiation - that's how a neutrino detector works.
2007-01-05 18:28:18 · answer #4 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sure! It happens every day! If you are driving your car at say 65 mph at night, with your headlights on, the light beam is being propelled out of your car at the speed of light plus 65mph! That's 670,616,629.384 plus 65= 670,616,694.384, give or take, lousy speedometers you can't depend on getting THAT accurate. It may even be higher! And that's just driving at the speed limit! All they need to do is develop some spacecraft with REALLY BRIGHT headlights and we should be at Alpha Centaur in, sheesh, a few weeks!
2007-01-05 19:59:48 · answer #5 · answered by baron_von_party 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can't even go close to the speed of light. I'm no astrophysicist, but I believe that you actually gain mass the closer you get to the speed of light. And the more mass you gain, the more energy is required to propel you. Therefore, you can't reach the speed of light regardless of any new technologies employed.
2007-01-05 18:25:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is physically impossible to exceed the speed of light. Light travels about a foot every billionth of a second (1ft/ns, ns means nanosecond)
2007-01-05 18:40:40 · answer #7 · answered by Shultzymon 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no practically its not possible...but as einstein says "if you travel square times the speed of light you would be able to time-travel"....but i guess thoughts are faster than the speed of light. :)
2007-01-06 02:17:48 · answer #8 · answered by Neelu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Supposedly, no mass which has a velocity less than that of light can attain a velocity equal to that of light, but that doesn't mean that some mass can't have a velocity greater than that of light without it ever having been less than that of light.
2007-01-05 18:27:19 · answer #9 · answered by marklemoore 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
einstein said that nothing can beat the light barrier. but we could travel faster than light if we had infinite amount of energy/
hay nothings impossible
2007-01-05 18:50:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes but you'd reach a point called infinete mass because as you go faster friction heats you up as you heat up matter expands so you expand infinitely and crush everything i guess
2007-01-05 18:40:49 · answer #11 · answered by Brian 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋