Yup, probably thousands of time faster than the speed of light. Explore Super String Theory.
2007-01-26 09:43:49
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answered by Anonymous
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The speed of light changes depending what medium its traveling in(see Fizeau experiment).
As far as increasing the motion of a mass in terms of velocity.You can make an experiment by pushing a car=The more the car increases speed it takes less and less force in the push. So to push the car at the speed of light it would reach a point where you are applying zero force on the push.
Einstein was very carefull on the statements he made .May be he had a good sense of humor, and he had a ball to see how many would misinterpret him. This is what is happening to day concerning the nature of light. He may have had the answer but like Newton he did not elaborate any further.
You can break up the velocity of light into directional components. This is what fitzgerald and Lorentz experimented on.
The requirement for motion is that you invest energy so for a mass structure to be set in motion it must loses mass.
So the greater the velocity the more mass an object must lose.
The more a mass structure slows dow the more mass it gains.
A proof of this is what happens to the electron when it changes orbital in the atom.
2007-01-26 10:13:11
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answered by goring 6
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I wish I could understand the Math behind the theory. But based on the info from people that can we can not use conventional methods to break the speed of light. I have head of some particles that might move faster than the speed of light. I believe they are called tacheon particles. The wierd thing about these particles is that their mass is equal to the square root of -1.
There is also the possiblity of traveling thru space using a worm hole. But that it just a theory and it does not violate the speed limit, it just bends space so that you don't have to travel as far. Fastenating stuff.
2007-01-26 09:56:39
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answered by J B 2
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No, we can't. You'll hear people say "it's only a theory", as if it's little more than a guess. To a scientist, theories are much more than that. Scientists don't prove theories, they try to disprove them. They perform experiments which either prove a theory's wrong or they support it - they can never prove it because the next experiment might not produce the expected result. Einstein published his theory of General Relativity in 1915 and it was first tested in 1919. It passed that test and it's still passing tests today.
2007-01-26 11:33:50
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answered by Iridflare 7
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the difficulty with the fee of sunshine is that our universe is defined by skill of this velocity. Einstien's equations are awaiting that as an merchandise approachess the fee of sunshine that's going to diminish and it will substitute into heavier. If something have been to easily attain the fee of sunshine, it may be infinetely small and infinitely heavy. whether, something that's infineitely small and heavy could have countless gravity and, for this reason, destroy the universe (which some people could evaluate undesireable). to no longer point out that the heavier an merchandise is, the greater capability that's going to take to enhance up it. So, as you get closer to the fee of sunshine, you're able to need countless capability to enhance up the tiniest bit quicker. curiously, the equations enable for the assumption of a particle that's born traveling quicker than mild that would then under no circumstances return and forth slower than the fee of sunshine. This theoretical particle became of a few interst yet, ultimately, shown to be impossible to exist. i'm particular you will proceed to have faith that the bounds of the fee of sunshine are incorrect, yet that's because of the fact which you're greater interested in delusion than you're in technological information. in case you fairly have been fascinated interior the technological information of your question, you're able to take a popular Physics classification at your community college.
2016-11-27 20:38:26
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answered by Anonymous
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His "theories" are about as well proven as almost any thing can be. They are not just his ideas floating around. For some examples, the satellites orbiting the earth have a time shift that matches the theory about objects being accelerated toward the speed of light; the light of stars passing the sun is bent by the force of gravity as he predicted, the movement of Mercury around the sun is different because of its movement in the strong gravitational field, as he predicted, and most relevant to your challenge, all the particle accelerators on earth have to be designed to allow for the fact that particles gain mass as they go faster. If that effect were not taken into account, as they got heavier, they would hit the walls of the equipment.
2007-01-26 09:49:54
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answered by Mike1942f 7
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No. The speed of light is a limit. It is the fastest speed there is. People don't believe Einstein because he said it alone, but because he offered the best explanation given the facts that we can measure and observe. Are you having trouble understanding special relativity?
2007-01-26 09:42:35
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answered by Colin H, Unrestricted commercial 2
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Science doesn't just accept everything someone says, no matter how many times they've been right before. It's been almost a hundred years since Einstein started publishing his theories - did you honestly believe they've never been tested? They never would have made it very far without tests.
Please look up Michaelson-Morley, Relativity and Mercury, and Gravity Probes A and B.
2007-01-26 09:53:24
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answered by eri 7
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The speed of light is irrevocable set by the smallest amount of time that can exist.
If you attempt to speed it up you are trying to force it to exist for a period of time that cannot exist!
2007-01-27 01:11:59
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answered by Billy Butthead 7
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If u did u would become a black hole. The continue acceleration of a collapsing star is strong enough to accelerate parts to the speed of lite which causes a black hole.
2007-01-26 09:45:38
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answered by JOHNNIE B 7
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