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Yes, indeed there is. When I get up off the sofa and walk into the kitchen for a

glass of milk, I have accelerated at a higher rate than the acceleration of light,

since the speed of light is constant and it doesn't accelerate.

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If, on the other hand, you're asking if any object has a speed higher than the speed of light, then the answer is a little more subtle. Relativity makes it clear that no object carrying information can travel faster than the speed of light. Until a few months ago, this "speed limit" seemed pretty safe.

Recent experiments at CERN suggest neutrinos going to Italy at a rate faster than the speed of light, but even the CERN experimenters admit they have probably made an error. It's just that nobody's been able to find the error yet.

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