Do you think that when the first light speed rocket is designed it will be designed by JPL's advanced....?

Question

propulsion laboratory or from some joe smoe nobody has ever heard of?

Answer 1

Light speed rocket?  You're reading too much science fiction.  Not a physical possibility.

Answer 2

no plain and simple not possible to go that fast unless you're made of pure energy which is what light is that's why sound is so slow it is the vibration through matter that propels it and light can only be bent and turned by matter same as the rest of the electromagnetic spectrum or light spectrum depending on how you know it

Answer 3

I doubt JPL will exist in its current form in the thousands of years it takes to develop such technology. I could be proved wrong - after all, people were saying that going to the moon was impossible in the early part of the twentieth century. I think accelerating a craft to anything close to the speed of light is way, way beyond anything we have now. It certainly won't be a "rocket" in the conventional sense.

Answer 4

I am pretty sure there will ever be a rocket that travels at the speed of light. Light is made up of massless particles called photons. They are the speed limit in our universe traveling about 186,000 miles per second..  Object with mass cannot travel at this speed... which means no rockets.

Answer 5

Hehe, a light-speed rocket would not be possible because the closer something accelerates toward c, light speed, then the more massive it becomes. At light speed, an object is infinitely massive. And it takes an infinite amount of fuel to propel an object infinitely massive.

There has been some talk on working with the ideas of the energy-space interrelatedness... so worm-holes and space warp drives may actually become science fact, whereas our light speed rocket is infinitely doomed.

Poor humans... We know so little, and aspire to doing so much! :)