Would it be possible to travel at the speed of light?

[TrollBoat]

The interneral parts of your body would be messed up, perhaps turned to goo.

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[DnaUnstable]

That's defence right there.
Nothing is worse than being blinded by your own stupidity. Just give up already. You're picking a fight only because xxxx said "FTL"? It's an abbrivation for "Faster Than Light". It's not referring to that stupid game. It actually was existant way before that game even was thought.

Neither of those are defensive. I understand WHAT the abbreviation stands for, what I'm saying is that most likely she was inspired to say it because of the game, and I was annoyed at the fact that a 13 year old would start talking about a subject that not much is known about  like she knew exactly what was going on.

 

[Blockzillahead]

Neither of those are defensive. I understand WHAT the abbreviation stands for, what I'm saying is that most likely she was inspired to say it because of the game, and I was annoyed at the fact that a 13 year old would start talking about a subject that not much is known about  like she knew exactly what was going on.

 

It still doesn't explain this;

I do know why she is getting defensive. I'm just arguing to argue because it makes me feel good inside :)

Just get banned already. You're starting stuff for no reason. That's trolling.

[DnaUnstable]

Just get banned already. You're starting stuff for no reason. That's trolling.

I genuinely want to know the questions I ask at the start. But then suddenly people start crying and I just don't understand. And trolling? Really? Hardly. I'm not acting like I don't know something to make someone angry. In fact, I really don't understand how anything I do could get anyone angry. I'm not 'starting stuff' either.

Get off your pedestal and realize you truly have no clue what you are talking about as well.

[Blockzillahead]

I genuinely want to know the questions I ask at the start. But then suddenly people start crying and I just don't understand. And trolling? Really? Hardly. I'm not acting like I don't know something to make someone angry. In fact, I really don't understand how anything I do could get anyone angry. I'm not 'starting stuff' either.

Get off your pedestal and realize you truly have no clue what you are talking about either. 

Then why did you say you are arguing just to argue?

[blaman]

Perfectly correct although it doesn't apply to the talk of FTL drives after my clarification post. Current proposed theoretical FTL drives never accelerate or move a craft by conventional means, and thus relativity doesn't apply and the laws of physics remain intact.

[Katadeus]

I feel like if you just had one box
[oo]
inside another box
[[oo]    ]
and then it moved
[ [oo]   ]
[  [oo]  ]
[   [oo] ]
[    [oo]]
but in that time it was also moving inside another box
[[[oo]    ]    ]
[ [ [oo]   ]   ]
[  [  [oo]  ]  ]
[   [   [oo] ] ]
[    [    [oo]]]
and then another box
[[[[oo]    ]    ]    ]
[ [ [ [oo]   ]   ]   ]
[  [  [  [oo]  ]  ]  ]
[   [   [   [oo] ] ] ]
[    [    [    [oo]]]]

The speed of the center box increases every time, right? However, it is not experiencing any more friction or anything. Once all boxes are up to speed in their respective environments there is no outside force acting upon them. The environment, for all that it matters to the box in the center, is standing still.
That equation there would only apply within each individual environment.

So if you made something like that in real life, you could easily exceed the speed of light.

At least that's what I think.

[DnaUnstable]

Then why did you say you are arguing just to argue?

Because at that point that WAS what it had become. People starting flinging themselves into the argument and spouting stuff.

Atleast you can actually hold a decent conversation. I appreciate that. You don't instantly get angry when people don't agree with you.

[SWAT One]

Article?

Here ya go.

[Warground]

@blaman: thats right. FLT drive concepts avoid this problem (in many concepts by bending the space around the ship)



By the way, another reason why you cant be faster then light: the "Time dilation" would cause a negative timeflow for the object wich is faster then light, so it would travel back in time and causality would be violated.

[Kalphiter]

I'm going to use the acceleration of the fastest car I could find.
(10.9530081301 m/s/s)
It weighs 1,888kg.

It would take 10 months to reach the speed of light with that car's acceleration.

The calculations below are not affected by the rate of acceleration, however remember how strong 11m/s/s acceleration feels to a human.

No it's not. It would require an infinite amount of energy to get an object to travel that fast.

No it doesn't, but it's a very large amount.

It would take 20679 NT of force for that acceleration. Extended over 10 months and 3.8853103e+15 meters, that's 8.0344332e+19 joules. That's equivalent to:
618033323077 gallons of gasoline
2510760375 tons of coal

All these calculations exclude weight of fuel (which involves calculus because it will be used up for the duration of the trip) and the actual weight of the space vehicle.

[Ceist]

DnaUnstable is a douchebag from I can perceive.

[Jairo]

we can travel at the speed of light
we just don't have enough resources to sustain the speed

[Ceist]

we can travel at the speed of light
we just don't have enough resources to sustain the speed

we've made things travel faster than light.

[Warground]

@kalphiter: so you want to tell us that Einstein was wrong? tell us more about that.

next time take the Lorentz factor in account.