Honors Project about the speed of light?

Question

I want to do an honors project on anything that can have mathematics about the speed of light and how it is impossible for a spaceship to attain that speed, what would it do to a space ships.
Can you include some formula's proving its immposbile or anything?
Thank you I will give best answer to you

Answer 1

This equation should get you started I think --

m = mo / sqrt(1-v^2 / c^2)

'm' is relativistic mass
'mo' is rest mass
'v' is velocity
'c' is speed of light

I've not done the math, but if you increase 'v' to the speed of light I *think* 'm' will get as close to infinity as mathematics allows...or you'll end up with a burned out calculator.

Answer 2

I do not know the math I do however understand energy, if a mass travels near the speed of light and there where Humans aboard the would suffer mass sickness what needs to be done is the invention of a shield to protect against inertia then the mass would be on the shield and not the humans...to get into hyperspace everything needs to be converted to energy and back again a computer would be needed and a tramendous amount of energy and in fact the presure on the shield could be also converted to energy, with technology we would be able to attains speeds many times that of light one day I even think we will have time travel to travel any distance without the loss of any time.

Answer 3

In a feeling, any easy travelling by using a medium different than a vacuum travels decrease than c as a results of refraction. even nonetheless, particular components have an exceedingly intense refractive index: specifically, the optical density of a Bose-Einstein condensate could nicely be very intense. In 1999, a team of scientists led with the help of Lene Hau have been waiting to slow the fee of a easy beam to approximately 17 metres in line with 2d, and, in 2001, they have been waiting to momentarily end a beam. In 2003, Mikhail Lukin, with scientists at Harvard college and the Lebedev Institute in Moscow, succeeded in thoroughly halting easy with the help of directing it right into a mass of warm rubidium gas, the atoms of which, in Lukin's words, behaved "like tiny mirrors", through an interference development in 2 "administration" beams.

Answer 4

wikis got all the formulas you'll need, but you might need to do some digging

great article though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light

I don't even think I could write the formulas in regular ASCII text here on YA......

Answer 5

It's not impossible if they maintain a warp field. Duuuh. Watch Star Trek more often.