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

[Trifax]

http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

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[The Titanium]

I'm not 'implying' anything. You wouldn't have ever said 'FTL drive' if you had never heard of the game. Admit it. You are only using the term because you were like "Wow! That sure would fit nicely into a conversation about speed of light travel! And make me sound smart too" You have no clue about how anything works in this subject.

Nah, I'm pretty sure I'm correct.

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Yeah, forget off. She can defend herself if she wants. She's not doing that bad actually other than the constant 'implying' thing.

Yes. Exactly. Congratulations you win a prize~

No but really, the fact you are getting SO defensive about it pretty much shows how correct I am.

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

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You are using that term like it is a real thing and not from a video game. Please stop, it doesn't make you sound smart.

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Considering how he continued to act, he really deserved it. He really deserved it.

[LordoftheUnclean]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THANK YOU BADSPOT

Considering how he continued to act, he really deserved it. He really deserved it.

Thank loving god that friend got banned. I really do hope its a perma.

[Ipquarx]

It's not physically possible to travel the speed of light.
And no, black holes are not portals, if you go in one you will die.
And no, you cannot bend space and create a wormhole without being in literally two places at the same time.

[xxxxkill]

Well that was unexpected

[Trifax]

Did he just get double banned?

stuff son, he did.

[The Titanium]

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.

If you had a superstrong catwalk a light year in length, shaking it at one end would only cause the other end to shake after a year.

I'm pretty sure the speed of light stays constant regardless of how many levels of moving boxes you're in, dude.

we've made things travel faster than light.

er, what things

i'm sure the folks at CERN would be dying to know

[Trifax]

If you had a superstrong catwalk a light year in length, shaking it at one end would only cause the other end to shake after a year.

I think you would have to shake it with a lot of force, because it takes a lot of work to transfer enough energy to create vibration/a wave in an object at that great a length.

[DrMaxwell]

I believe all is possible

[Kalphiter]

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

next time take the Lorentz factor in account.

No, what I did showed how loving hard it is to even get to the speed of light.

[Planr]

im positive FTL travel is possible. its just a matter of how long until we get it to work on machines.

[TheChaosCarrier]

If you had a superstrong catwalk a light year in length, shaking it at one end would only cause the other end to shake after a year.

light year = distance light can travel in a year at it's speed

i believe vibrations do not transfer at the speed of light.
so it would take much much much longer for that energy to reach the end.

if it worked like that, Kalphiter's statements would be laughably invalid. that's basically implying that the amount of energy you would put into mixing a protein shake is all it takes to travel at the speed of light, meaning while you shake your drink to mix it, your hand is traveling back and forth at the speed of light or close to it.

[*FacePalm*]

Hyperspeed or hypersonic?
Anyways yes, it might be possible for Light-Speed vehicles, and maybe even FLT drives, but no, I doubt you would actually slam your face through the back of your skull and into the wall behind you.

Faster Light Than

[Pixel]

I believe all is possible

Oh wow we really are BFF4FL or whatever I said!

I agree

[Clone v.117]

If you were going that fast, even in a magical space ship made of titanium magic wizards and debris or whatever you hit (which would be impossible to avoid) would pierce straight through you, if you did it on earth you would be shredded to pieces in a fraction of a second.