This is a very good question. To make an object travel at almost the speed of light is extremely hard, but not impossible. The first way is to attach a lot of fuel to the back of this object. Then all you would have to do is burn the fuel and the object would slowly accelerate to near light speeds. The second and more efficient way (...this idea came out of Pomomarine's mind, the credit is all his) is to have 2 super strong magnets one stronger than the other. You put both of them in space. Both of them are north and one of them has infinite strength. You attach one magnet to something stable, the other one goes on the object you're trying to move. Then you just power the magnets and the object would zip away constantly getting faster and faster until it reaches the speed of light. The question is then, what happens when it goes faster than the speed of light? ~Project Z
I think that you cannot reach complete speed of light, but close can be possible. Using hydrogen to fuel your rocket is a well discussed topic, but the amount of fuel you would need is extreme. Another reason, if we could travel at the speed of light, it will not be even useful for maned space missions because the greatest pressure in speed our bodies can handle is mach 9. No matter now much energy you have, you cannot break the laws of physics, a solid object cannot go the same speed as a beam of light can travel. Faster than the speed of light is not possible as well, there is no particle in the universe that is discovered that can move faster than the speed of light. ~Environmentalist
As all of you so far have mentioned, I do believe that making an object go at close-to-light speeds is possible. Nevertheless, a tremendous amount of energy [and fuel, etc.] would be necessary to do so. Environmentalist also makes a good point: traveling at close-to-light speeds. People cannot withstand the pressure that traveling close to the speed of light would bring. Also, any fast acceleration to that speed from a still position would be virtually impossible to survive as the inertia and acceleration would nearly crush the human body. ~Pomomarine
No, [I don't think it is possible to go at or above the speed of light] because the fabric of space time only allows movement below the speed of light. Trying to go faster will rupture space time and throw you far into the future (theoretically and according to famous astrophysicist Michio Kaku). There is nothing that's faster than the speed of light, other than probable dark matter which scientists still don't know much about. But you can travel at near the speed of light by rippling space time, which may cause some disturbances in time frames of other planets, but allows you to go at high speed without rupturing the fabric of space. ~KW
~Pomomarine
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