• Question: Why can't anybody travel faster than the speed of light?

    Asked by 565gdge33 to Jimi, Hayley, Chris on 17 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Hayley Moulding

      Hayley Moulding answered on 17 Mar 2016:

      Speed of light is like the Usain Bolt of particles. We currently don’t know about anything or anyone else because we wouldn’t be able to see them! We need the light to be able to see them!

    • Photo: Jimi Wills

      Jimi Wills answered on 17 Mar 2016:

      as an object approaches the speed of light, its mass gets bigger… and that means it takes more force to accelerate it… the closer to the speed of light you get, the more force is require to get closer…. you would actually need an infinite force to reach the speed of light! And that’s not possible.

      But there may be ways around this, such as converting the mass into waves, and later reassebling it as mass… but even waves can only go AT the speed of light, not faster.

      The other way is to change the shape of space, so you can reduce the distance between two points. But nobody knows how to do that!

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