The Large Hadron Collider can accelerate protons to 99.9999991% the speed of light. Why can’t we reach 100%?
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As you get closer and closer to 100%, it takes more and more energy to obtain smaller and smaller increases. It would literally take infinite energy to go to 100%.
… that is, for particles that have mass. Particles that have no mass (e.g. photons) do travel at 100% the speed of light.
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