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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Because light weights nothing. You can’t accelerate as fast as something that weights nothing as long as you weight something. The # of energy you would need is infinite.

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