• Question: Do you think it is possible to exceed the speed of light?

    Asked by Julius Caesar to Arthur, Clare, Daniel, David, Tora on 10 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Daniel Parsons

      Daniel Parsons answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      According to Albert Einstein’s theories, No – nothing can travel faster than light.. his famous equation Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared (E =MC^2) kind of explains it. To get a number bigger than the speed of light something so big would need so much energy to move that fast that it is impossible.
      The cool thing about Einstein’s theory is that its been around for over 100 years and some of the greatest scientists since have all looked at it and all found that his theory holds. Lots of theories are shown to be slightly wrong over time but not this one!

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      David Wilson answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      You can’t go faster than light. Absolutely rock-hard speed limit.

      But you could, maybe, get around that by making the distance you want to go shorter. i.e. so you don’t have as far to travel between where you are and where you want to go. There are a couple of ways that work within Einstein’s theories, like wormholes or stretching space-time. But they would need huge amounts of energy, and we have no idea how to do anything like that at the moment.

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