Will we ever be able to travel faster than the speed of light ?

No. Physicists, after decades of study, have never seen any particle that is actually traveling faster than light. Light speed seems to be the maximum speed limit of anything that involves information, mass or energy in our universe. Billions of experiments have been conducted since the 1960's that involve accelerating particles to near light speed, and there has never been any glimmering of evidence that this process can lead to faster than light speeds. Einstein seems to be right on the money.

You may have heard about worm holes and other such monkey business, but there is no evidence that they exist either. Besides, according to general relativity, you have to make pretty big ones before their tidal gravitational fields can be survived by humans without ripping a human apart.


Copyright 1997 Dr. Sten Odenwald
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