The Large Hadron Collider can accelerate protons to 99.9999991% the speed of light. Why can’t we reach 100%?
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The faster something is going, the more energy it takes to speed it up. It’s harder for a car to accelerate from 60 mph to 61 mph than it was for it to go from 59 mph to 60.
As your speed approaches the speed of light, the energy required to accelerate approaches infinity, meaning it would take infinite energy to move a particle with mass at the speed of light
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