Re: Space Travel

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James Colvier <jamescolvier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was wondering if anybody knew anything about the possibility of
traveling faster than the speed of light. I studied E=mc2, but if I
understand it correctly, that doesn't actually state that it isn't
possible. If it were possible, what would it require, and how would it
operate?

-James Colvier

(Special) Relativity doesn't exactly say nothing can travel faster than
light. It says that it is impossible to accelerate an object (with
mass) from sub-light to superluminal speed. Some physicists have
contemplated ("studied" is not the right word, except in the sense of
looking at the equations) what are called "tachyons," particles that are
already moving faster than light.
.

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