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 that would require **literally** infinite energy.
and yes I used literally correctly. If we exterminate all life on earth including humans to make way for power plants cover every millimeter of the surface of the earth, and then build a magic worm hole that funnels all the energy of one trillion supernovas a second and used that to power the LHC we would have less than
0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of the energy needed for that.
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