2007-09-17 05:10:32 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No, you wouldn't be able to survive the force. To accelerate fast enough to reach the speed of light within the life span of a human being would put more force on the body then it could handle, so, you would either die waiting to go that fast, or die while accelerating because of extreme G forces.
Why would you want to do that anyway? There isn't much point. The only real application would be space exploration outside of our universe, which could be accomplished far more efficiently, and with far less risk, using unmanned probes.
2007-09-17 06:02:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Because time and space change on you as you speed up, so that no matter how much you speed up you never get to the speed of light. If you are in a car going the speed of light and turn on the headlights, you see their light leaving your car at the speed of light but people behind you watching you drive away see both you and the light going away from them at the speed of light, which means they see the light from your headlights not leaving your car at all. You in the car and the person standing still see the same thing differently. Most people cannot understand this and so just reject it. I have described this effect dozens of times in other questions like this one and have never gotten a best answer out of it.
2007-09-17 13:15:51 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A human mass structure or any othe rmass structure is composed of ligh micromasses..Note E=mC^2.
If a complex mass structure was given enough power to move at the speed of light, it would break up into its basic micromass components which would fly out at the speed of light.
So nobody can fly at the Speed of light and stay in one piece to live and tell the story.
I dont believe that Einstein had even dared to try it.That is why he concluded that nothing can be accelerated at the speed of light ,,except the micromass particule of "Light."
2007-09-17 13:07:10 · answer #3 · answered by goring 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no
According to the physics of relativity, the faster you travel, the more momentum you have. In order to reach the speed of light, you would have to overcome an infinite amount of momentum.
Objects that are moving slower than the speed of light cannot reach speeds that are equal to or above the speed of light
Things that are moving faster than the speed of light cannot reach speeds that are equal to or below the speed of light
Things that are moving at the speed of light (photons) cannot change speed
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2007-09-17 12:31:06 · answer #4 · answered by michaell 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, the laws of special relativity determine that no object with mass can move at light speed relative to the space around it. The only exceptions I can think of off my head would be inside the ergosphere of a rotating blackhole. The black hole is rotating, and dragging space around it at near light speeds. This is called "frame dragging". So if you were to fly through the ergosphere, you could travel at faster than lightspeed, relative to space outside, but would not be violating special relativity because you wouldn't be traveling faster than light relative to the space inside the ergosphere...
2007-09-17 12:22:56 · answer #5 · answered by Rob S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing of mass can reach the speed of light...according to Einstein.
2007-09-17 12:19:03 · answer #6 · answered by Sam C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I experience the speed of light every time I turn on the switch, but thats as close as you get. If you could some how transmogrify yourself or represent yourself into nothing but pure energy, or light, you then could achieve this limit of all acceleration
2007-09-17 15:38:23 · answer #7 · answered by lee s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as we currently know, you cannot accelerate anything with mass to the speed of light.
Doug
2007-09-17 13:00:56 · answer #8 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2007-09-17 12:18:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no maybe in the future
2007-09-17 15:36:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋