How long will it take man with current technology to build a craft to break the speed of light?

Question

How long will it take man with current technology to build a craft to break the speed of light?

Answer 1

not possible at all.

Definitely not with current technology, which would have trouble reaching 1/10 the speed of light.

Answer 2

Totally impossible.

Requires an infinite amount of energy and we can't even keep our lights on.

Answer 3

The key words in your question are "with current technology" current technology means - The technology we have today. The answer is never. In current theory, time slows as you approach the speed of light. This means the fuel needed to accelerate an object will come out slower providing less thrust. Most people, mistakenly, have an Idea it is Einstein's equation explaining the reason we can't exceed the speed of light. E= MC squared actually is a formula calculating an amount of energy. It is actually his theory of relativity which explains the physics of light speed travel.

Answer 4

It's impossible according to Eintein's E=mc(squared) calculation.

Answer 5

It is going to be really hard. But, to put the problem in perspective ...

If you accelerate for one year under at one g (9.81 m/s^2), you would reach the speed of light.

Putting it this way, does make it seem reachable, but relativistic effects will soon intervene and prevent you from reaching the light speed.

Answer 6

That is impossible, to make that the craft has to be converted to photons in order to travel like lights

Answer 7

as far as we know its not possible...its not really jet power technology holding us back but rather fundamental laws of physics.

Answer 8

Forever.

Unless we get past e=mc^2 and find some other new equation that works even better than Einstein's

Answer 9

It depends. With current technology, it has to be next to impossible. But as we take on the "material-antimaterial zone" for granted, it just might could be possible to break the space barrier (travelling ahead of space & time is the purpose of human so far to travel faster than light). I don't think you will ever need to travel faster than light. You don't have an apparent reason. But you will travel through space & time in some time (though it sounds a bit science-fictious) once we acquire the technology so that we can shift time through electromagnetic analogy of materialisation concept. Thanks anyway. Your thought is respectable.