Do you believe it is possible to travel faster than the speed of light?

[Fira]

Note: whether it be all of space itself or any of space itself or both
space itself can both be moved at literally any speed and also move at literally any speed.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

There are theories about how to do it, but they are worried that everything in front of whatever moves that fast will be destroyed. So, you go to a new planet to say hello to some aliens and instantly kill them all.

 

[mike208]

There are theories about how to do it, but they are worried that everything in front of whatever moves that fast will be destroyed. So, you go to a new planet to say hello to some aliens and instantly kill them all.

Well I say we figure out how to do it before they do then, lol

 

[Newbian]

Sure but do you dare go plaid speed?

 

[TheELF]

No you can't travel faster than light,that is a cosmic constant(you would have to turn into light to travel just as fast as light),but that does not mean that you can't travel the same distance as light in a shorter amount of time(wormhole theory and such).

 

[Fern]

Do you believe it is possible to travel faster than the speed of light?

I suspect that if it is it won't "travel" in the way we commonly think of it.

I.e., I don't see any warp drive like they show on TV where you look out the windshield or whatever and see yourself moving forward at a blurring speed. I think it would be more like folding space or (multiverse stuff) moving from our universe into another and then popping back here in a different place almost instantly.

Yeah, I watch too much science fiction.

Fern

 

[techs]

Hasn't it already been proven with quantum entanglement?

 

[Baked]

If we can fly, I don't see why we can't exceed the speed of light. There's always a way.

 

[KeithTalent]

Uh, you've obviously forgotten about ludicrous speed. Darn kids not studying history.

KT

 

[bradly1101]

I suspect that if it is it won't "travel" in the way we commonly think of it.

I.e., I don't see any warp drive like they show on TV where you look out the windshield or whatever and see yourself moving forward at a blurring speed. I think it would be more like folding space or (multiverse stuff) moving from our universe into another and then popping back here in a different place almost instantly.

Yeah, I watch too much science fiction.

Fern

Me too.

Will we travel that speed in a 'warp bubble' or will we 'fold space' ?

The spice must flow!

 

[phucheneh]

If we can fly, I don't see why we can't exceed the speed of light. There's always a way.

The Wright brothers weren't wagging their dicks in Einstein's face.

Not that I believe it's impossible that he was wrong. 'Cause he wagged his dick in lots of other faces.

But breaking the 'sound barrier' would be a much better analogy. And even then, inaccurate. We know a lot about the universe and have observed nothing that travels faster than light. We base many, many things off of the observation of said speed limit. Whereas sound was more an anecdotal I'M GIVIN' 'ER ALL SHE'S GOT, CAPTAIN that was overcome by application of known physics.

We have nothing we can apply to do the same for the speed of light. You might as well hypothesize that if you try hard enough, you can turn yourself into goose that lays golden eggs.

edit: also, aliens.

 

[nageov3t]

if two spaceships travelling faster than the speed of light collided, would you die and then see yourself die later?

 

[exdeath]

I hope so. Light is far far too slow. It would still take 10s of thousands of years just to explore the field behind our house let alone the whole galaxy....let alone other billions of galaxies separated by empty space billions of times bigger than a galaxy.


Sigh.

 

[Kaido]

Sure, why not. They said we couldn't exceed the speed of sound before...

 

[Farang]

If there is no friction in the vacuum of space why wouldn't a rocket continuously burning simply keep going faster, and faster, and faster...

 

[Slammy1]

If I understand the question, yes. I think if you travel in a line you end up back at where you started, so there must be a way to circumvent the sphere and travel in a true "straight line". That would give a huge apparent speed considering r vs circumference and assuming a near light speed. Mostly my fantasy I suppose.

 

[Markbnj]

Supposing we built a ship that traveled faster than light. What human could you ever trust with it?

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Sure, why not. They said we couldn't exceed the speed of sound before...

No, they said we couldn't exceed the speed of sound without the aircraft breaking up. Big difference.

But maybe the speed of light isn't really the speed limit, maybe it's just the fastest thing we've been able to measure. Light travels so fast that it took mankind a million years to be able to figure out that it travels at all. Could there be something out there that travels so quickly that our puny earthling brains can't even comprehend its existence yet let alone figure out how to measure its speed?

 

[nageov3t]

They, they said we couldn't exceed the speed of sound without the aircraft breaking up. Big difference.

But maybe the speed of light isn't really the speed limit, maybe it's just the fastest thing we've been able to measure. Light travels so fast that it took mankind a million years to be able to figure out that it travels at all. Could there be something out there that travels so quickly that our puny earthling brains can't even comprehend its existence yet let alone figure out how to measure its speed?

well, thousands of years at least

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

If there is no friction in the vacuum of space why wouldn't a rocket continuously burning simply keep going faster, and faster, and faster...

Where's this endless supply of fuel coming from? I saw on a show once where they said that it would take all the energy used in a single day on earth to get a bowling ball to the speed of light. Now what would it take for a spaceship? The power of the sun?

 

[BladeVenom]

We should just increase the speed of light.

 

[Paul98]

We will never be able to move through space at faster than the speed of light. It doesn't matter how much energy is used or how long you accelerate something for it will never go faster than the speed of light.

Lets say you get on a space ship and start acceleration at 1g for 1 year. You then stop accelerating, the speed of your space ship relative to your ship is still 0, and light moving away from your ship is still moving at the speed of light. Your speed with respect to your starting point is some fraction of the speed of light. You could repeat this as many times you like you will never be moving faster than the speed of light in any frame of reference.

Lets say I am on earth and I see a space ship moving away from me in one direction at .6c, and I see another space ship moving away from me in the opposite direction at .6c also. You think to yourself they are moving at 1.2c with respect to each other, but you would be incorrect. to get the correct speed relative to each other you would use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity-addition_formula So you would get 1.2/(1+.6*.6) = .88c




If we are able to accelerate to close to the speed of light relative to earth we will be able to explore the galaxy and universe. On the earth a huge amount of time may pass but on the space ship it may only be a year or two.

Or if we are able to manipulate space it's self we may be able to get around going through space faster than light.

 

[Farang]

Where's this endless supply of fuel coming from? I saw on a show once where they said that it would take all the energy used in a single day on earth to get a bowling ball to the speed of light. Now what would it take for a spaceship? The power of the sun?

Nuclear reactor + tons of time + very small space capsule

 

[Anarchist420]

I had a substitute teacher one time who moved faster than the speed of light.

 

[Baked]

We have nothing we can apply to do the same for the speed of light. You might as well hypothesize that if you try hard enough, you can turn yourself into goose that lays golden eggs.

edit: also, aliens.

Yeah but the Japanese were successful in altering the genes of roses to turn them blue. So making golden egg laying goose shouldn't be an issue.