Is it impossible to achieve the speed of light, or do we just not yet have the technology to do so? I personally believe that we just don't have the technology yet. I'm sure we'll find some way to make things go faster than light... or at least as fast as light.
Here's an article about why matter cannot reach the speed of light according to current technology. You don't have to read it, but it's here if you want to...
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=62537
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<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>The reason matter cannot reach the speed of light is that theres no way to push it that fast. Simple, eh?</div>
Of course. At least by current technology. People used to think that we'd never break the sound barrier, but we did that.
<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>Going into the mathematics a bit further, in order to move something you must apply force(F). If you have taken a physics course you probably remember that</div>
I guess this is one way that my opinion is flawed. I never took physics.
But it's still my opinion.
<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>where m0 is the rest mass of the object, v is the current velocity, and c is the velocity of light in a vacuum. From this it can be seen that as velocity increases the force needed to accelerate the particle also increases. Furthermore, as the velocity approaches c the force required approaches infinity. This means that in order to accelerate an object to lightspeed you would require infinite force; because an infinite force is impossible, it is impossible for matter to travel at the speed of light.</div>
I find that really strange. How can something not infinite require infinity? The speed of light is not infinity, is it? The speed of light = 299 792 458 m / s... and 299,792,458 is not infinity.
Here's an article about why matter cannot reach the speed of light according to current technology. You don't have to read it, but it's here if you want to...
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=62537
In the last post....
<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>The reason matter cannot reach the speed of light is that theres no way to push it that fast. Simple, eh?</div>
Of course. At least by current technology. People used to think that we'd never break the sound barrier, but we did that.
<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>Going into the mathematics a bit further, in order to move something you must apply force(F). If you have taken a physics course you probably remember that</div>
I guess this is one way that my opinion is flawed. I never took physics.
But it's still my opinion.<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>where m0 is the rest mass of the object, v is the current velocity, and c is the velocity of light in a vacuum. From this it can be seen that as velocity increases the force needed to accelerate the particle also increases. Furthermore, as the velocity approaches c the force required approaches infinity. This means that in order to accelerate an object to lightspeed you would require infinite force; because an infinite force is impossible, it is impossible for matter to travel at the speed of light.</div>
I find that really strange. How can something not infinite require infinity? The speed of light is not infinity, is it? The speed of light = 299 792 458 m / s... and 299,792,458 is not infinity.