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NO! According to relativity theory it is not possible for anything with mass to travel faster than light.
However there are particles that have been hypothesized(but never detected, so they may not exist) called tachyons (meaning "the fast ones") that always travel faster than the speed of light.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 7y agoNo. The speed of light is the, for lack of a better term, the maximum speed limit of the universe. The closer an object gets to the speed of light, the slower time passes for that object, thereby actually reducing it's speed, keeping it from reaching the speed of light.
The fact of the matter is it will take an infinite amount of energy to reach light speed sice there is no such thing as infinite energy lightspeed is impossible for anything that has mass
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∙ 11y agoTheoretically, yes, but that would require us to reduce the weight of whatever is gonna travel at those speeds to absolute ZERO and/or we will need to have an unlimited power-source to propel it (Both unlimited in capacity and in the amount of energy it provides at any given time).
Since making something weigh "nothing" is currently impossible and there is no such thing as "unlimited/Infinite" in a limited and finite universe, it's practically impossible.
It would be much smarter if we would bend the rules of physics than to try to break them.
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∙ 12y agoIt is currently believed unlikely that anything can move faster than light.
It's also currently believed that nothing has "negative mass". Even tachyons, hypothetical particles that can only travel faster than light, don't have negative mass (they have imaginary mass, which is not the same thing).
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Does a low mass object travel faster than a high mass object?
There's no connection. A truck can travel either faster OR slower than a turtle.
What is light object?
An object which has a less mass or weight.
Can the gravitational potential energy of an object be negative?
No. That would require a negative mass or a negative distance, neither of which is possible.
How Does the mass of an object affect the speed with which it falls?
The more mass it has, the faster it will fall and vice versa.
What object falls faster a heavy object or a light object in a vacuum?
They both fall at the same rate. This is because they are both only acted upon by one force in the vacuum- gravitational acceleration. The mass, size or shape of the object do not influence the object's motion in a vacuum.
When does mass cause an object to fall faster?
Mass does not cause an object to fall faster.
What happens to the mass of a particle as the particle approacches the speed of light?
When any object with mass moves, no matter at what speed, its mass increases. The faster it moves, the faster its mass increases. And the closer to the speed of light it moves, the closer to infinity its mass grows.
If a car is traveling in a vacuum does it weigh less the faster it goes?
As an object accelerates toward the speed of light it's mass (and weight) increases, at the speed of light (c) the objects mass would be infinite, making it impossible for any object to accelerate to light speed. So, "no" an object does not weigh less by moving faster in a vacuum, the faster it goes the more it weighs and the slower time goes. The change in mass and time occurs because near light speed the variable "c" is more fixed and the remaining variables (time and mass) must change to maintain balance.
The less mass a moving object has the?
its faster
Which scientist stated that no object could travel faster than light?
You'te fishing for "Einstein", but he didn't say that. He simply figured out how much the mass of an object changes when the object moves at any speed. He left it for others to discover that his formulas are true, and that if they're true, the mass of any object is infinite at the speed of light, and since it would take infinite energy to make infinite mass move that fast, and since nobody has access to infinite energy, no object that has any mass can speed up to the speed of light, so it certainly can't go faster than that.
Does a low mass object travel faster than a high mass object?
There's no connection. A truck can travel either faster OR slower than a turtle.
What is light object?
An object which has a less mass or weight.
Is the beat of a flies wing faster than light?
Nothing that has mass can travel faster than the speed of light. A fly's wing has mass, therefore it cannot travel faster than light.
Is it true that lions can run faster than the speed of light?
Nothing with mass can travel at the speed of light, and nothing with mass can travel faster than the speed of light. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. The faster an object travels, the heavier it gets. An object traveling near the speed of light would weigh countless tons and be too heavy to move. Neutrinos (sub atomic particles) which might travel faster than light have no mass and are not effected by the increase in weight with the increase in speed. Lions can only run about 20 mph, much slower than the speed of light. Cheetahs can only run about 25 mph. again, much slower than light speed.
Will something that's light rotate faster than something heavy?
Other things being equal, yes - with the same force, you can make the light object rotate faster. The amount of force required to make an object rotate depend on the mass, the size, and the general shape of the object. And of course on the rotational velocity you want to achieve. Do some reading on "moment of inertia" - for rotational motion, that is the equivalent of "mass" for linear motion.
If someone moves faster than light does it become dark?
It is impossible to move faster than light, as your mass increases as your speed approaches that of light. The Speed of Light would mean infinite mass, which it is impossible to make faster.
Can a particle without mass travel at the speed of light?
No. Faster-than-light travel is physically impossible for several reasons, the main reason being that the energy required to accelerate to the speed of light approaches infinity as you approach the speed of light (a side effect of relativity).There is only a finite amount of energy within the universe, and far less of it is actually usable, so only a finite acceleration and therefore a finite maximum speed is possible, and it is far from the speed of light.However, this does not exclude the possibilities of warping space around an object to create the result of FTL travel, but without the effects. Several hypothetical models have been formed for this, but so far none are within the technological or theoretical reach of humankind.
