• Question: Do you think well ever travel at the speed of light!

    Asked by j1mm1 to Charlotte, Dhvanil, Frank, Jim, Leila on 18 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Jim O Doherty

      Jim O Doherty answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      The energy required to go faster approaches infinity as you approach the speed of light, so no conceivable method of accelerating a spacecraft to that speed is going to work. My hope is that some trick can be found to move across vast distances by another means, like wormholes or something we can’t even imagine today.

    • Photo: Dhvanil Karia

      Dhvanil Karia answered on 19 Mar 2013:

      Someone will need to beat Dr Einstein for that to happen…… 🙂

    • Photo: Leila Nichol

      Leila Nichol answered on 19 Mar 2013:

      If we did, we would have to re-think physics as we know it!

    • Photo: Frank Soboczenski

      Frank Soboczenski answered on 20 Mar 2013:

      That is highly unlikely I am afraid. But maybe we can one day discover how to bend space so that we can just “jump” from one point to the other one. Gravity for example bends space – that is one way how we can discover distant stars because of their gravitational effect on its surroundings.

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