2007-02-12 10:33:46 · 7 answers · asked by Buck BUCK 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
It goes backward in time, or so the theory goes.
2007-02-12 10:37:33 · answer #1 · answered by walter_b_marvin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We first must discount the many reasons an object cannot go faster than the speed of light - we can then speculate what might happen:
No one really knows.
Even Einstein's famous formulas break down at speeds which match or exceed light. Mathematically, we end up with negative square roots and division by zero - whatever that might mean.
At the speed of light, time is slowed to a stop and distances are shortened in the direction of travel to zero. If we speculate further, perhaps when the time stops and we continue to accelerate, maybe it goes negative or runs backwards (into the past?)
Good question.
2007-02-12 18:58:34 · answer #2 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing can go faster than the speed of light. Whatever is travelling at that speed turns into light energy.
2007-02-12 18:41:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can't because at the speed of light its mass becomes infinite and the whole universe would be "attracted" to it in an unbelievably gigantic "big crunch". Time slows to a "stop" (zero dimension) and its spatial dimension along the axis of travel becomes zero.
It is entirely speculation that this happens as it would require infinite energy to accelerate the "something" to the speed of light and that will not happen so can't be tested.
2007-02-12 23:44:47 · answer #4 · answered by Mad Mac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can something not be possible to go faster than the speed of light? That theory is unjustefied.
2007-02-12 18:41:34 · answer #5 · answered by LLL H =] 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is theoretically impossible for anything to go faster than the speed of light. So unless you change the laws of physics, this is not a possibility. Any other speculation is science fiction.
2007-02-12 18:40:11 · answer #6 · answered by bozo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
becomes a black hole.
2007-02-12 18:45:33 · answer #7 · answered by michael r. Doe 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋