The Large Hadron Collider can accelerate protons to 99.9999991% the speed of light. Why can’t we reach 100%?
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Because the faster a massive particle moves through space, the slower it moves through time. At 100% of the speed of light (relative to the observer), it would stop moving through time entirely (again, relative to the observer). At least that is one of the interpretations that you can have when you ignore the rules of math that tell you not to do calculations with infinity in them.
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