why the LHC can’t go the speed of light

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The Large Hadron Collider can accelerate protons to 99.9999991% the speed of light. Why can’t we reach 100%?

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Anything with mass requires infinite energy to reach the speed of light. Infinite energy is not possible.

We could double the amount of energy we put into the particle and it would only get slightly closer to the speed of light.

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