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Not as far as we know. Theoretically these particles are called tachyons.

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How is the temperature of a gas related to the motion of gas molecules?

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Why does speed of light increase after passing through water?

The speed of light depends on the electrical properties of whatever substance it's in. It has nothing to do with what substance it used to be in before, or what substance it's going into next. -- If it goes from air into vacuum, its speed increases. -- If it goes from air into water, its speed decreases. -- If it goes from water into air, its speed increases. -- If it goes from water into diamond or jello, its speed decreases.


Do you go back in time if you blink faster than the speed of light?

I'm thinking that this is easy to test and find out.When you blink, the only part of you that moves is your eyelid. The rest of you stays still.So if you move your eyelid faster than the speed of light and it goes back in time,then your eyelid would disappear, because the rest of you would stay here in thepresent time.You could try it any time, wherever you are, and see what happens.But how fast would you have to blink ?If your eyelid moves a whole inch during a blink, then in order to move at the speedof light, you'd have to move it fast enough to blink 11,802,827,520 times in one second.That's about 590 thousand times faster than that high squeal you hear froma mosquito's wings.Do you think you can do that ? Good luck on your experiment.


How does the speed of sound waves compare with the speed of light waves?

How fast is sound and light?The speed of sound is at about 344 m/s and the speed of light is at about 3 X 108 m/s. If you would like to test it out, wait for a thunderstorm. The lightning and the thunder start at the same place while the lightning is faster. That will demonstrate the speed difference of light and sound.Light takes 8 1/2 minutes to reach us from the Sun.The speed of sound varies with the relative motion of the observer but the speed of light is constant regardless of the relative speed. See Einstein's special theory of relativity.The speed of light is roughly 882 thousand times the speed of sound.-- Sound takes about 4.7 seconds to cover 1 mile.-- Light takes about 0.0000054 second to cover 1 mile.-- In the time it takes sound to travel one mile, light travels 881,741 miles .During a thunderstorm, you see the lightning before you hear the thunder,even though they're caused by the same event.Another clue to an easy answer: Nothing is faster than the speed of light.Sound crawls.Sound speed is about 700 mph. (about 1/5th of a mile per second)Light speed is about 186,000 mps.Light goes about 930,000 times quicker.If someone claps their hands 250 feet away, light can go 8½ times round the world while you wait to hear it.Speed of light is a lot faster...the speed of light goes 299,792,458 meters per sec and the speed of sound goes 343.2meters per sec


How does a medium (matter)affect the speed of light?

When light goes through any medium other than a vacuum, its speed is normally slower than in a vacuum.

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What goes faster than the speed of light?

Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, according to the theory of relativity.


The speed of light is special because?

As far as they know, nothing goes faster.


Can light go faster then the speed of light?

Since light is made of light, whatever speed it goes at is what we call the speed of light. So we'll always see light moving at exactly the speed of light, at least in that particular medium.


How is temperature to the speed of particles?

as the temperature goes up the speed of the particle goes up


Does going faster than light make a flash?

Please note that it is NOT POSSIBLE to go faster than the speed of light in a vaccum. It probably never will be possible. However, since you didn't specify "vacuum", the answer is basically "yes" - and this has actually been observed. A particle that goes faster than the speed of light in the medium in which it is travelling will slow down, and in doing so, it will emit Cherenkov radiation. For more details, see the Wikipedia article on Cherenkov radiation.


How is the temperature related to the speed of the particles?

as the temperature goes up the speed of the particle goes up


How is temperature relate to the speed of particles how?

as the temperature goes up the speed of the particle goes up


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.


Why does the universe goes faster than light?

The speed of light is around 86,000,000 miles per second and there is not anything that can attain nor exeed that speed. It has been sugested that the power of thought may reach such a speed but has never been proven.


How speed affects motion?

The faster something goes, the more MPH it goes.


What happens when a particle goes through a light bulb?

When a particle passes through a light bulb, it interacts with the atoms in the filament of the bulb. This interaction can cause the particle to lose energy, which results in the emission of light. The emitted light is what we perceive as the light produced by the light bulb.


Will humans be able to travel faster than light in the future?

That seems unlikely. Any method used to travel faster than the speed of light would also make it possible to travel to the past; and as any science-fiction fan knows, that is quite problematic.