Scientifically is it possible we may discover something faster than light any time in future?
In: Planetary Science
There are hypothetical particles call tachyons that can travel faster than the speed of light (in fact, if they exist, they have to travel faster than the speed of light). The less kinetic energy they have, the faster they would travel, and if they had zero kinetic energy, they would travel at an infinite speed. They would have as much trouble decelerating to the speed of light as we have accelerating to it.
But, if they exist, we would almost certainly not be able to detect them. So while the math of our best physics theories say they could exist, they probably don’t exist, and even if they did, we’d likely never be able to detect them.
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