Is it possible to reach or surpass the speed of light?

Cahos Rahne VelozaThis is kinda like the concept or the theoretical mechanism of a Teleportation device right?

To my knowledge, that would basically be the case, but we do not need to be able to travel at the speed of light.We would just need to be capable of harnessing energy, and directing it in the right way.Also, I have a theory that we are not present in this dimension, but instead, we are projected in the dimension we currently see. So in this dimension, we are just merely light, so transportation would entirely be possible if that were true.

Loonylionradio waves can and do carry data, but the frequency of the wave limits the data that can be carried.

So it's possible but incredibley difficult

mobile phones, 802.11a/b/g/n and bluetooth et al all use radio waves. Mobile phones use the lowest frequencies, they have the slowest data rate and lowest data carrying capacity of the three, but the highest range. as frequency and thus data carrying speed/capacity increases, the range decreases.

It's probably not impossible to travel equal to or greater than the speed of light, but it's almost certainly impossible to do it using any conventional means of acceleration.

Loonylion · #23mobile phones, 802.11a/b/g/n and bluetooth et al all use radio waves. Mobile phones use the lowest frequencies, they have the slowest data rate and lowest data carrying capacity of the three, but the highest range. as frequency and thus data carrying speed/capacity increases, the range decreases.

I see... So even if we could move like that it would most likely be unefficient

The real problem is that our bodies can't handle it, think of it when you ride a go-kart, when you take the turns sharply you're swung to one side, the same happens when you accelerate in a normal car etc. This is all due to our mass and forces that affect us, and since we have gravity which affects everything with a mass it's impossible to travel at those speeds because our bodies would be crushed.Some serious advances in technology is required before we get even close to those speeds.

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Our internal organs would basically be liquidised

Seph · #26it's impossible to travel at those speeds because our bodies would be crushed.

Crushing wouldn't be the issue, vaporisation due to the sheer amount of energy involved would be.

Light travels faster than sound so if we could reach the same speed as sound's perhaps that could bring us one step further to infinite speed potential.

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we broke the speed of sound decades ago, concorde was faster than sound.

Yeah but the Concorde is not in commission anymore.

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military jets can still fly supersonic, and so can some private jets.

But in space there is no gravity, wouldn't traveling at the speed of light be different than it is on earth?

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light and mass are unaffected by gravity.

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Please explain why black holes "suck" in light, and causes them to be "Invisible"

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the gravitational pull of a black hole is millions of times that of any other body thus it is able to exert a pull on light when light is normally unaffected.

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But then, wouldn't that actually prove that light can be affected by gravity, even if it's by an unimaginable number, it's still affected by it, right?

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it is only affected by extreme gravitational forces from black holes, not planetary gravitational forces.

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So, theoretically speaking, if we were to contain the power of a black hole, and be able to fully harness it, it would be possible tom "bend light"?

theoretically yes. Practically, the only way of making light change direction is reflection or refraction.