Is it possible for us to travel at the speed of light?
Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by admin in United States
What can happen to us if we can?
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14 Responses to “Is it possible for us to travel at the speed of light?”
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davidsnoodles
08. Feb, 2010
Currently, no. Our bodies cannot tolerate accelerations of that speed or just going at that speed period. Our molecules would be torn apart in the process.
Mike
08. Feb, 2010
Depends on if relativity holds true or not, which at this point, is up in the air.
lint
08. Feb, 2010
Theoreticly, no. But theoreticly once the world was flat, the earth was the center of the universe, and the Periodic Table was earth, air fire, and water.
tyler p
08. Feb, 2010
No because, according to the theory of relativity, it would take all the energy in the universe to make us go that fast, thus the craft will have to be as big as the universe. What’s the point of making a craft as big as the universe if, then, there is no other place to travel at the speed of light. But in the 30’s and 40’s, people said it was impossible to travel at the speed of sound because it would make whatever aircraft or thing trying to accomplish that too unstable and go spiraling down to the earth and meeting their creator. We all know how wrong they were!
nic1531
08. Feb, 2010
it would be possible if you had enough room and enough time . you would not be able to accelerate quickly as you wouldnt be able to handle the g forces . idealy you would want an acceleration of about 1g or a little more then you could stand on the rear end and it would be like gravity . at that acceleration it would probably take 100’s of years to reach that speed and the just as long to slow down again. good question , thanks
Helpme
08. Feb, 2010
If you’re alive, it’s IMPOSSIBLE !
What would happen ? You’d die from being squashed & flattened like pancake.
If you’re dead and on your way to Heaven, then, you’ll make it !
I1
08. Feb, 2010
No, because in order to travel, our bodies need some type of transportation (a bus, bike, airplane, etc). These transportaion has to be made up of materials (steel, wood, etc), and you can’t make a transportation out of light.
Adelaide
08. Feb, 2010
No it isn’t possible for us to travel that fast.
Although we can travel at the speed of sound and when that happens we create the sonic boom.
I think if we traveled at the speed of light we would be able to travel through time either forwards or backwards or maybe time would slow down.
I think it’s so interesting to think about though.
Just think if you leave when your 21 and are gone for about 30 years when you come back you could still be about the same age as when you left but everyone else would be older.
But then going so fast for so long would be sort of boring.
What if you accidentally crashed into an asteroid or space junk?
That wouldn’t be good at all.
You’d be so used to seeing everything so fast to suddenly stop and see everything normal like driving in a car would be really weird.
You’d be yelling at everyone to hurry up and go faster!
Just imagine……
Rick V
08. Feb, 2010
As of now it would take infinite energy and of course you would be turned to energy.
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy00/phy00721.htm
Fiery Dragon
09. Feb, 2010
Of course not, at least not foreseenable during the life time of you and me. Anyway, fairly speaking, I do hope that for the next generations to come, humans will be able to develop spatial vehicles that can travel at speed of light so that the dream of interplanetary travels will become a reality.
Vince M
09. Feb, 2010
The math says no. That is, the math that tries to explain how our univers works, as we understand it.
tabluvr2001
09. Feb, 2010
Trust me, only the people on Star Trek can do that.
Mountain Top
09. Feb, 2010
The equations show that you can not travel AT the speed of light, unless you have zero mass – which would make you a collection of photons. But …
The equations also show that you could travel faster than the speed of light – the problem is getting through the “barrier” of the speed of light itself. You would have to somehow jump past it without ever being at the speed of light itself.
Another method for faster than light travel is a wormhole.
In any case, not much would happen to you. There is a question of whether the universe would age faster than you would. That is a consequence of the Lortentz equations used to get to the theory of relativity.
Coastcowboy
09. Feb, 2010
Who knows? Even though the math says no there are some ‘things’ that exceed the speed of light — photons for example. The fact is we will probably never know until our technology catches up with our imagination. By then we could have a completely different perspective on ’speed of light’ physics.