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Short answer: As for today, we do not know for certain. It is by existing theory, Einstein's theory of relativity, impossible for matter (mass) to reach the speed of light.

A little longer: By Theory of relativity, the energy which is required to reach the speed of light is a limit which stretch to infinity. As energy can't be created nor destroyed, there is a finite amount of energy in the universe, and the speed of light cannot be reached.

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