The Large Hadron Collider can accelerate protons to 99.9999991% the speed of light. Why can’t we reach 100%?
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Each increase in speed requires more energy than the last. As you approach the speed of light, the amount of energy required to speed something up even a tiny bit more approaches infinity, and since there’s no way to get an infinite amount of energy we cannot reach the speed of light.
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