In theory is there a faster way to travel than the speed of light?

Question

If not do you think that it'll ever be possible (apart from the obvious boundaries we have today) to travel faster than the speed of light and if so how do you think that our bodies would handle such speeds without decintergrating into bits.

And how far do you think we've come with discovery science.

This is an open Creative Science question and all perceptions are acceptable, as long as the're not silly answers of course :)

Answer 1

The only argument possble for this would be the theory behind "time travel". I would be safe on saying that other than that ficticious assumption, light would be the fastest ever.

Answer 2

Yes and No. Via wormholes we could travel distances faster than going the speed of light would get us there. However, this does not require breaking the speed of light barrier. This idea has been formulated by physicist Michio Kaku at the City University of New York.

It is only possible in theory as the amount of energy required would be something like a star.

Michael John Weaver, M.S.

Answer 3

Yes in a manner of speaking, a worm hole would allow you to travel great distances instantly. You body would not actually accellerate faster than light, but if you wormholed to Mars for example, you would beat light traveling that same distance.

Our bodies traveling faster than the speed of light is something we probably would answer better if could go the speed of light. I am sure someone would figure out a solution at some point.

I am sure its only a matter of time, say 200 years, before such technology exists. Look at all the crazy advancements we have made in the past 10 years.

What would you have said 25 years ago, if I tried to describe a DVD to you? You probably would have given me the same responce that a lot of people will give you about this question. lol

edit: hmmm I just remembered Lasardiscs existed 25 years ago, so DVDs would have been conceivable.

Maybe a description of the internet 25 years ago......hehe

Answer 4

Well the speed of light is186,282,397 miles per second,so any thing that can travel a little faster

Answer 5

Yes MayorSirWippet another theory, like the scissors, is the wave crashing the shore musing. Have you seen how a wave crashes ashore on a beach and you see it crash moving up or down the beach? Well if a large supernova occures and a part of that light wave was to crash against a cosmic sized mirror as a wave crashing a beach that motion could be faster than light.

Answer 6

This is taken from The American Museum of Natural History website (http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein...

"For centuries, physicists thought there was no limit to how fast an object could travel. But Einstein showed that the universe does in fact have a speed limit: the speed of light in a vacuum (that is, empty space). Nothing can travel faster than 300,000 kilometers per second (186,000 miles per second). What's more, only light can travel at this speed. It's impossible to accelerate any material object up to the speed of light because it would take an infinite amount of energy to do so. So as it turns out, Einstein could never have caught up with the beam of light that captured his imagination as a teenager!

So why can't you travel faster than light?

The faster an object travels, the more massive it becomes. As an accelerating object gains mass and thus becomes heavier, it takes more and more energy to increase its speed. It would take an infinite amount of energy to make an object reach the speed of light."

So my answer is that it's highly unlikely.

Answer 7

The speed of light is just that--the speed at which light travels.  It is the fastest-moving "thing" we know of, but I suppose that if one could travel at exactly the speed of light one could also travel at the speed of light + one.

The current theoretical model suggests that the amount of energy required to accelerate an object to the speed of light would be practically infinite.  As the need for additional energy increases, that additional energy increases the mass that needs to be accelerated ad infinatum.

Whatever the case, technologically we're nowhere near where we need to be to make this happen.

Answer 8

Traveling at faster than the speed of thought...spirits do it all the time.

Answer 9

according to Einstein's theory of relativity, it is impossible for anything to travel faster than the speed of light.

Answer 10

In the book "Old Man's War" they have an interesting system of FTL travel.  I'm not sure that this is actually possible but here goes.  It basically is an adaptation of the Quantum Theory of Multiple Universes.  The "Engine" makes them jump from the universe they are in to a universe where they are already at their destination.  The two universes are identical in every way except that the ship is in a different position in the universe.

Answer 11

If you think of the intersection of the blades of a scissors, as you close them, the point of intersection begins to travel faster and faster. If the scissors were long enough that point could in theory overpass the speed of light.