Why have we ruled out the possibility of finding something faster when we’ve only scratched the surface of space exploration and understanding?
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To move forward, you need to move mass. To move mass, you need energy. The faster you travel, the more energy is needed to do so.
Light has no mass and therefore doesn’t require energy to move itself. The speed in which it travels is the speed in which a massless object can move through space. It is the only known thing to have zero mass (gluon excluded) so nothing can move faster than light because nothing has “negative mass”.
To move as fast as light, you’d need to create more energy to do so – an infinite amount which is impossible.
To move forward, you need to move mass. To move mass, you need energy. The faster you travel, the more energy is needed to do so.
Light has no mass and therefore doesn’t require energy to move itself. The speed in which it travels is the speed in which a massless object can move through space. It is the only known thing to have zero mass (gluon excluded) so nothing can move faster than light because nothing has “negative mass”.
To move as fast as light, you’d need to create more energy to do so – an infinite amount which is impossible.
To move forward, you need to move mass. To move mass, you need energy. The faster you travel, the more energy is needed to do so.
Light has no mass and therefore doesn’t require energy to move itself. The speed in which it travels is the speed in which a massless object can move through space. It is the only known thing to have zero mass (gluon excluded) so nothing can move faster than light because nothing has “negative mass”.
To move as fast as light, you’d need to create more energy to do so – an infinite amount which is impossible.
It’s not. Particles with mass take energy to accelerate. Massless particles, don’t. Massless particles will move at a certain speed, and light is one of them, but not the only. Particles with mass can’t move above that speed, since they would require infinite energy to accelerate to it. Something that moved faster than than the speed at which massless things move would need to have negative mass. As far as we know, that doesn’t exist.
What will really blow your mind is that everything travels at the speed of light in space-time. Some just more in time and others more in space.
It’s not. Particles with mass take energy to accelerate. Massless particles, don’t. Massless particles will move at a certain speed, and light is one of them, but not the only. Particles with mass can’t move above that speed, since they would require infinite energy to accelerate to it. Something that moved faster than than the speed at which massless things move would need to have negative mass. As far as we know, that doesn’t exist.
It’s not. Particles with mass take energy to accelerate. Massless particles, don’t. Massless particles will move at a certain speed, and light is one of them, but not the only. Particles with mass can’t move above that speed, since they would require infinite energy to accelerate to it. Something that moved faster than than the speed at which massless things move would need to have negative mass. As far as we know, that doesn’t exist.
What will really blow your mind is that everything travels at the speed of light in space-time. Some just more in time and others more in space.
What will really blow your mind is that everything travels at the speed of light in space-time. Some just more in time and others more in space.
The speed of light is the speed of causality before it is the speed of light. It is the fastest that any two things can interact with each other before it is the speed of light. Light travels that fast because it has no mass, so it has no choice but to travel at the maximum possible speed.
For anything to travel faster than light, it would need more than infinite energy and it would then travel backwards in time.
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