Eli5: Why is light that fastest possible thing?

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If we know the exact speed of light then it’s clearly not infinite. If that’s the cause, what is preventing us from sending something faster then the speed of light( ignoring our current technology limitations).

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The speed of “things” is greatly determined by their mass, photons are (arguably) zero-mass and therefore are unbound

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