The Large Hadron Collider can accelerate protons to 99.9999991% the speed of light. Why can’t we reach 100%?
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Literal ELI5: The faster you go, the more energy you need to got ‘a little bit more fast’.
Eventually, the speeds get fast enough that we don’t have enough energy to make it go faster, even though it’s still less than the speed of light.
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