Question: Will The Speed of Light ever be obtained by Man .....?
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that is confusingAnswer #2:
No, we will never travel at the speed of light.Answer #3:
no, to obtain the speed of light, man would have to convert from matter to pure energyAnswer #4:
sorry, no.Star Wars and Star Trek and Stargate and Starship Troopers, etc are all fiction.
at the moment, it looks like traveling anywhere NEAR the speed of light is a no-no.
read the Wiki article on Faster-Than-Light. Its pretty neat, but pretty theoretical. Also, if it were possible, wouldn't being be streaking around the galaxy all over?
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For the technology we have today, its impossible...I agree with your statement about a few who thought about Mechanics of Flight...
But, speaking of POSSIBILITIES, it will. It might be sooner or later. And as always only few must do it, but not everyone... Time knows so be patient.
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Nah, physical objects cannot really be converted into pure energy.Answer #7:
It won't be like star wars or star trek (well maybe leaning a little towards star trek).Speed of light can be traversed and surpassed....through conversion to pure energy and time dialations/wormholes. Yes, that's true...so what about theoretics! It makes sense.
So how do you convert yourself to pure energy? You throw a forcefield around your craft, which then cuts you off from universal local physics. You create your own mini universe. You appear as energy to those outside of your ship. You glow like a star. Sound familiar?
Like those glowing white luminous spheres seen up in the night sky and they are unknown...as in UFOS?
My god, those UFOs can move! One second they are at rest, the next second they are hurtling away at thousands of miles per hour, and that is just in the atmosphere which has friction in the air. Out in the vacuum of space, the velocity goes way up.
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No. It is not even one of Man's goals.Answer #9:
The first part of your question " will the speed of light ever...etc"Probably not attained (I think that's what you mean).
According to Einstein the faster a body moves the more its mass increases.
To attain the speed of light would mean that the body would be almost at infinite mass, and would, therefore, require almost infinite energy to keep it moving.
There is also a time dilation problem encountered when objects move at very high velocities...but that's another question.
However some theoretical physicists think they may be able to sidestep the mass problem by using devices called wormholes in space which, in theory, would connect two distant areas of space through a sort of tunnel shortcut.
Unfortunately no -ones seen a worm hole yet...and they may not even exist.
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Phillip -We have been thinking about it for 100 years or so. Unfortunately, it is not as simple as applying more and more power to make you go faster. Think of it this way. There are distant galaxies that are receding from us at 80% of light speed. The light from those galaxies still passes us at exactly the speed of light. If we moved away from those galaxies at 80% of light speed (relative to our current location), we would still be traveling at under the speed of light relative to those galaxies, and the light from them would still pass us at exactly the speed of light. No matter how fast you go, light from behind you will still pass you at the speed of light. You cannot catch up with it. Worm holes are nice mathematical exercises, but even if they existed physically and not just numerically (which they don't), they would not provide a way to exceed light speed. Instead, they would provide a way to escape the physics of our universe (which prevent light speed travel) and pop back into it at another place. Highly speculative, and not likely to be a final, practical solution. It's fun to think about such things, but even DaVinci made sketches of designs that would fly, and he didn't have to change the universe to do it. We don't really know where to start.
I am not saying that it cannot be done. What I am saying is that the physics that is the fabric of our universe does not allow for it. Modifying or escaping the known universe is sort of a complex issue.
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> People didn't fly until someone thought and thought and eventually worked out the Mechanics of Flight.The thing to keep in mind is that FTL is not just a technology issue, it's a "nature of the universe" issue. According to our current understanding, space, time, matter and energy are tied together in such away that the amount of space covered by a piece of matter in a given time just can't reach "c" without an infinite expenditure of energy.
Of course, it may turn out that our laws of physics are wrong. But if they're right, and they DO represent a correct picture of reality, then "c" will forever be an impassible barrier that no advance in technology will ever overcome.
Current attacks on the FTL problem are aimed at "circumventing" space; warping it in such a way that we can get from point "A" to point "B" without passing through all the space between. But right now it's not clear whether that will ever be possible. There may be other laws of nature (that we don't know yet) that prohibit that kind of travel too.
Frankly, a more promising route might be enhanced lifespans. If we can figure out how to live for a million years, then a ten-thousand-year trip to a faraway star system might not seem like such a big deal.
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When we travel at a slower pace say the speed of sound it nearly breaks us. The human body works to keep things in equlibrium however can only do so to a certain extent it is fragile and meant to be handled with care.Objects gain mass as they speed up, and that speeding up requires energy. The more mass, the more energy is required. By the time an object reached the speed of light, according to Einstein's theory of relativity and his calculations, its mass would be infinite, and so would the amount of energy required to increase its speed. To go beyond the infinite is impossible. Theoretically, strange things happen when you exceed the speed of light. For example hitting a target with a gun that shoots bullets faster than the speed of light. Some observers would see the bullet hit the target before they saw the shooter fire the gun. There is, however, at least one real-world example of superluminal (i.e., faster-than-light) travel. It occurs when light passes through water. In this dense medium, Schneider explained, light is slowed to three-fourths of its speed in a vacuum. In a nuclear reactor, charged particles flying off the radioactive rods through the water they are submerged in exceed this reduced speed.Because these particles contain an electric charge, they emit energy, called Cherenkov radiation. Any particles they bump into become radioactive, giving the water a characteristic blue glow.Every time you look at the water in a nuclear reactor, the bluish glow you see is radiation produced by charged particles moving faster than the speed of light in the water.The speed of light when it passes through a transparent or translucent material medium, like glass or air, is less than its speed in a vacuum.
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To travel at the speed of light you would need toInfinity Mass
Infinity Energy
If we could do both of them we would be creating Universes let alone traveling at the speed of light its impossible
Traveling the speed of light mean you cant be seen and you are not dark so you can only be invisible
Speed of Light & Dark are equal and if you traveled at the same speed what would that make you?
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Yes because if you think of Gravity as iron fileings on a tabe. The table being space and the Iron being gravatons ( sub atomic particals of infinate dencity.) Drop a magnet on and the fileings move away. gravatons give other matter mass. inside protons and nutrons and elecrons in an atom you will find gravatons kinda like lead in scuba weaghts. so we have to find the frequency of the graviton and Create an oposite frequency. By Doing this therefore we can travel fater than light and avoid time dilation. After all einstine said that no objest of relitive mass can travel at or faster than the speed of light.Answer #15:
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