Not in our present understanding of physics. In all of our present mainstream physics' rulesets, in order for any object with mass to travel at the speed of light, it would require infinite energy, and that is just not going to happen. Don't even begin to think about going faster than light.
That said, there are always new things "just around the corner", but consider this... If faster than light travel were possible, why haven't we been visited by extraterrestrial beings? Hmmm...
Voyager's supposed maximum sustainable speed is "warp 9" which is assumed to be ( times the speed of light. Being that Alpha Centauri is 4.37 light years away from our sun then at warp 9 it would take 177.025 days, or approximately 6 months, to reach it. Chief Engineer Nerdberg, signing off.
Speed and Velocity are the same thing, it is a measure of rate of change of position of an object.
According to the US Bureau of Standards, the speed of light is considered the fastest thing in the world. It travels at a speed of approximately 299,792 kilometers per second in a vacuum.
Fact. According to the theory of relativity, the speed of light in a vacuum, denoted by 'c', is the fastest speed at which energy, information, or matter can travel in the universe. Any object with mass would require an infinite amount of energy to reach the speed of light.
Lasers or any other beam that travels at the speed of light.
no,actually there is such thing as a time warp
Warp Speed - 1981 TV is rated/received certificates of: Iceland:16
the speed of light
== == From what I remember, impulse speed was used to dock and leave a space station; so it would make sense that this form of movement has a low velocity (try parking a car at 80mph). Warp speed is supposedly faster than the speed of light, I think... So warp speed is faster than impulse speed. Warp speed, as above, is faster than light, whereas impulse speed is used to move around within a sector of space. Warp speed is much, much faster. According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia, which uses the Okuda warp scale, impulse speed is 1/4 lightspeed, or 270 million km/h. Warp 1 is lightspeed, or 1078 million km/h. Any warp factor is considerably faster than impulse (or "sublight") engines.
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The method for achieving warp speed in Star Trek is to warp the space around the vessel and leave the vessel in a pocket of normal space. It contracts space time in front of the vessel and expands the space time behind it.
It was so hot that the plastic cover began to warp. A spacecraft equipped with a warp drive may travel at velocities greater than that of light by many orders of magnitude The star ship Enterprise can do a maximum speed of warp ten. Each individual warp thread in a fabric is called a warp end.
The Captain, dilithium crystals, and warp speed.
Warp speed is faster than the speed of Light. Warp 1 is the speed of light and warp 2 is 10X the warp 3 is 27X and it increases by a power of 3 for every level. At warp 5 for example you could make to the closest star Proxima Centauri 4.22 lights years away. It would take hours instead of years to get there, but the power needed to generate that kind of speed would be enormous. Warp is so fast that objects come to you through a distress in space. For generating this we would have to concentrate energy so vast to distort space time. Also known as wormhole movement explained by Einstein's law of relativity.
Speed of light (in a vacuum) = 186,282 miles per second.186,282 * 60 (sec) * 60 (min) = 670,615,200The Speed of light in MPH is = 670,615,200 mph
Yes, warp speed is a theoretical concept in science fiction that allows for faster-than-light travel. It involves bending or warping spacetime to facilitate faster travel between points in space. While the physics of warp speed are not currently achievable based on our understanding of the laws of physics, they are a popular topic in science fiction.
No. Our species does not possess the technology for faster than light speed.