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The speed of light is 670,616,629.4 mph, and no one has ever travelled this fast. In fact, most physicists are agreed that to do so would be impossible as according to Einstein's Special Theroy of Relativity, to do so would require an infinite amount of energy.

We have travelled faster than the speed of sound though(and still do on a regular basis) Chuck Yeager was the first pilot to break the speed of sound (770 mph).

However, in 2007 two German physicists - Dr. Gunther Nimtz and Dr. Alfons Stahlhofen of the University of Koblenz - claimed that they had observed microwave photons travelling "instantaneously" (ie, faster than light) between prisms roughly a metre apart during investigations into a phenomenon known as quantum tunnelling.

No one has travelled faster than the speed of light, but the sound barrier has been broken.

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