"Hunh, I never stopped t' think that it was SPACE that was movin'!"
Step 1: Researchers announce that they have surpassed the speed of light!
Step 2 (some months later): Researchers find a flaw in their experiment. Speed of light not surpassed after all.
But can they make the Kessell run in under twelve parsecs?
QED.
"Hunh, I never stopped t' think that it was SPACE that was movin'!"
I’d like to comment, but I’m just not up to speed on this.
To the best of my knowledge, if you are traveling at a velocity (a vector quantity with magnitude and direction) less than the speed of light you cannot exceed the speed of light because your mass will become infinite, i.e., blow up. However, the equation is also quite specific. If your velocity is greater than the speed of light, an object can exist. The question is how to get it going at those velocities.IMHO
Old news! Captain Kirk has been traveling at warp 8 and above since the 60s!
Figuring out what limits light to 186,000 MPS would go a long way to faster-than-light stuff.......
I seem to remember that there was much talk about how the Sound Barrier was an absolute that could not be broken and the aircraft that tried would go out of control and disintegrate. Then, Chuck Yeager flew to Mach 1.07 on 14 October 1947 and the myth was debunked.
Who says we cannot go faster than light? The Light Barrier is an absolute? It is just another obstacle to be broken and a challenge to conventional thinking. We’ve got to think outside the box; say “yes it can be broken” and then figure out how to do it.
Anyone notice that the AP photo is a gratuitous “photoshop”?