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However, the absence of information can travel faster than light speed.

no information) can travel faster than light speed.

Nothing made of the fundamental particles from the standard model (i.e.

Nothing with mass can travel as fast as the speed of light, or faster (according to relativity).

However, massless energy doesn’t always travel its constant speed in practice (as it is often impeded in some way there are no perfect vacuums in the physical universe).

Pure massless energy (like a photon) always travels light speed (in a true vacuum).

Light speed is a constant speed and the maximum speed of the universe.

With the above noted, rules that apply to light speed include: Rules For Light Speed (Why Nothing Can Travel Faster Than the Light Speed Constant) Thus, this doesn’t break the rule either.

In cases where light is slowed down, light is no longer traveling at its constant speed, and even sound can travel faster than light in these conditions.

In the Big Bang, it was “nothingness” (AKA empty space) that expanded faster than light.However, even in these cases, there is always a caveat that explains what is happening. “the speed of light, in a perfect vacuum, measured from an inertial frame as a constant with an exact value of 299,792,458 m/s.”)ĭespite this, under special conditions, such as during the big bang when space expanded faster than light, or in cases where light is slowed down, this rule can sort of appear to be broken (see for example: 4 Things That Currently Break the Speed of Light Barrier). What this means is that, nothing with mass can travel faster than the light speed constant (i.e. In both ways “nothing travels faster than the speed of light”. No “thing” (including particles) can travel faster than light speed, but some “non-things” can. Nobody knows if such form of energy could ever exist in the universe.Can Anything Travel Faster than Light Speed? Negative mass/energy is still a hypothetical idea. Calculations show that such a system, if ever made, would require a huge amount of negative energy for its operation. Warp drive technology still has some drawbacks. The ship isn’t really traveling at a speed, instead it is pulling its destination towards itself while pushing its starting point back. In this manner, the spaceship could travel locally at very low velocities and thus avoid violating any laws.

These rings generate a contraction of space ahead and expansion of space behind the spaceship effectively making it travel ‘faster than light’. This can be done with the help of two giant rings that surround the spaceship. The warp drive system creates a warp field around itself. If successful, IXS Enterprise could reach the nearest star Proxima Centauri (4.2 light years away) in just two weeks! You can check the conceptual artwork of IXS Enterprise here. He has even designed a conceptual spacecraft named IXS Enterprise that would use warp drive for interstellar travel. Harold White, a NASA scientist, is currently running the White-Juday warp-field interferometer experiment to check whether such kind of travel is possible. As they say, today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact, warp drive is not just a part of science fiction anymore!ĭr. Warp drive is a hypothetical spacecraft propulsion system that can travel faster than light.Ī warp drive spaceship could travel faster than light without actually violating theory of relativity.

Will we ever travel faster than light series#

You might have heard of ‘warp drive’ in the science fiction series Star Trek. Einstein’s Theory of Relativity forbids ordinary matter from ever reaching the speed of light, as it would require infinite energy.