Scientifically is it possible we may discover something faster than light any time in future?
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Depends on ‘anything’ . Information can’t go faster then light, however you can get a shadow to move faster then light. (At least the idea of it) . Imagen you placed a massive canvas around our entire solar system near its edge(past Neptune) and then had an object circling the sun very close and fast (near the speed of light) then the shadow cast by the object on our tarp could be moving along faster then the speed of light.
Neutrinos can travel faster than light:
https://physicsworld.com/a/do-neutrinos-move-faster-than-the-speed-of-light/
Yes. But anything faster than light travels backward in time. So we don’t really experience them in the same frame of existence or causality
The collapsing of the wave function in quantum mechanics happens faster than light. Einstein and Niels Bohr fought about it!!
Speed of light in vacuum is the max speed in the universe. But light may go slower in various materials, so yes, it may happen that something moves faster than light. Classical example is cherenkov radiation that happens in nuclear reactors where electrons move faster than light causing characteristic blue light
It’s not popular with the arrogant science crowd, but the objective truth is that we don’t know the speed of light.
We know the 2 way speed of light, as in “what our instruments show as the send/return speed of light” but it’s entirely possible that there is no 1 way speed limit. If the double slit quantum experiment proves anything, it’s that the nature of the universe is so weird that in 100+ years time our current model of everything might be as laughable as “the Earth is the center of the Universe and we’ll burn you at the stake for saying it’s not.”
Truth be told, we just don’t know shit and most of our models are simply repeated observations of things we can’t necessarily prove.
We’re just turkeys waiting for Thanksgiving IMHO…if you know, you know. If you don’t, read the Three Body Problem trilogy.
The theoretical particle that could is called a tachyon but we don’t have any evidence to suggest they exist, and if they do things become weird. Specifically, the cause of something can happen after the effect of something, violating causality.
The basic question has been answered, but it’s worth noting that nothing can go faster than light *in a vacuum*. Particles can exceed the speed of light in a medium like water.
Simce all these comments are very long. I’ll give an actual ELI5. Basically, as you speed up, the universe tries to make sure the speed of light is the same for you as for everyone else. To do this, if you are going really fast, the rest of the universe has to speed up to make sure light looks the same for you. No matter how fast you go, the universe will always just speed up for you.
To other people looking at you, you move slower and slower, (so the opposite effect). If you were to somehow reach light speed, you would just be frozen in time.
Space expands faster than the speed of light. It’s the only legit thing that we can agree is faster, but only because it’s essentially “outside” the rules.
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