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No particle can exceed the speed of light in a vacuum.

Only massless particles can travel at the speed of light because as speed increases, the mass of the particle also increases, and the amount of energy it takes to accelerate it increases. As a particle (with mass) approaches the speed of light, the amount of energy needed to accelerate it approaches infinity.

There is one exception to the speed limit of the speed of light and that is the speed of a particle moving through a material medium. (For instance, glass has an index of refraction of about 1.5 which tells us that light moves through glass at a speed that is about 66% of its speed in a vacuum.) High energy particles can move through materials faster than light can move through the material. When that occurs, there is an interesting phenomenon called Cherenkov radiation. This radiation is simply light, but it results when any charged particle moves through a medium faster than light move through the same medium. (See related links.)

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When you move with the speed of light carrying a clock:

-- Anybody watching you fly by notices that your clock has stopped.

-- As you fly by him, you can see that your clock is running OK, but his clock has stopped.

-- You're both correct.

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-- You cover the distance between places in a very short time.

-- Anybody watching you notices that your mass is infinite.

-- Anybody watching you notices that you have no front-to-back thickness.

-- Anybody watching you notices that your heart and your wristwatch have stopped.

-- You notice exactly the same things about anybody you pass.

-- Light shining at you from anywhere else passes you at the speed of light.

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Your aging process would reverse and you would not age. If you went faster then the speed of light you would physically look younger (Hense the reverse aging process).

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Actually you can not travel faster than light speed.

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When you move at the speed of light time stops because of the theory of relativity

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No object can do that. But if it could, then it would

get to places in a very short time.

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it will travell back to the past time

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its mass increases

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