• Question: would it be possible to ever reach the speed of light?

    Asked by anon-181153 on 8 Jun 2018.
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      Damian Mole answered on 8 Jun 2018:

      In standard theory, as you add more and more energy to go faster and faster – and approach the speed of light, your mass would increase so much that you would never actually reach the speed of light – unless you were a photon in a vacuum – then you already have!

    • Photo: Joanne Sharpe

      Joanne Sharpe answered on 8 Jun 2018:

      Ah that is so interesting, thanks Damian for the answer!

    • Photo: Hannah Farley

      Hannah Farley answered on 10 Jun 2018:

      Damian says no but Star Wars says yes, maybe we could get just sub light speed and it would count as warp speed? (I’m very much not a physicist but I like going places fast).

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