Why is light the fastest speed possible?

Nothing can travel faster than 300,000 kilometers per second (186,000 miles per second). Only massless particles, including photons, which make up light, can travel at that speed. It's impossible to accelerate any material object up to the speed of light because it would take an infinite amount of energy to do so.
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Is the speed of light really the fastest?

Traveling at over 186,000 miles per second in a vacuum, light is the fastest-moving thing we know of.
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Why is light the fastest wave?

Light doesn't need a medium to travel. The speed of sound through air is about 340 meters per second. It's faster through water and it's even faster through steel. Light will travel through a vacuum at 300 million meters per second.
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Why is it impossible to go faster than light?

So the faster something travels, the more massive it gets, and the more time slows – until you finally reach the speed of light, at which point time stops altogether. And if time stops, well then, so does speed. And so nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.
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Is speed faster than light possible?

Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity famously dictates that no known object can travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum, which is 299,792 km/s. This speed limit makes it unlikely that humans will ever be able to send spacecraft to explore beyond our local area of the Milky Way.
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Do Tachyons exist?

Tachyons have never been found in experiments as real particles traveling through the vacuum, but we predict theoretically that tachyon-like objects exist as faster-than-light 'quasiparticles' moving through laser-like media.
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Is warp speed possible?

“None of the physically conceivable warp drives can accelerate to speeds faster than light,” Bobrick says. That is because you would require matter capable of being ejected at speeds faster than light—but no known particles can travel that fast.
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Who proved Tachyon is faster than light?

Tachyons were first introduced into physics by Gerald Feinberg, in his seminal paper "On the possibility of faster-than-light particles" [Phys. Rev. 159, 1089—1105 (1967)].
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Is a black hole faster than light?

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have seen that the famous giant black hole in Messier 87 is propelling particles at speeds greater than 99% of the speed of light.
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Is light faster than darkness?

Darkness travels at the speed of light. More accurately, darkness does not exist by itself as a unique physical entity, but is simply the absence of light. Any time you block out most of the light – for instance, by cupping your hands together – you get darkness.
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Why is light so much faster than sound?

Light waves travel much faster than sound waves. Light waves do not need a medium in which to travel but sound waves do. Explain that unlike sound, light waves travel fastest through a vacuum and air, and slower through other materials such as glass or water.
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Is light faster than lightning?

The average speed of lightning is not as fast as the speed of light, which is 299,792,458 meters per second.
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Is speed of light faster than sound?

The speed of light as it travels through air and space is much faster than that of sound; it travels at 300 million meters per second or 273,400 miles per hour.
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How fast can a human go without dying?

This is a well documented field, and the average maximum survivable g-force is about 16g (157m/s) sustained for 1 minute. However this limit depends on the individual, whether the acceleration is applied to one's entire body or just individual parts and the time in which the acceleration is endured over.
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Does gravity move faster than light?

[+] Although the constants of electromagnetism never appear in the equations for Einstein's General Relativity, the speed of gravity undoubtedly equals the speed of light.
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How fast is a tachyon?

One of the most intriguing entities in relativity theory are tachyons. They are hypothetical particles that travel faster than light. They are distinguished from "bradyons," particles that travel at less than the speed of light.
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Can a wormhole exist?

Einstein's theory of general relativity mathematically predicts the existence of wormholes, but none have been discovered to date. A negative mass wormhole might be spotted by the way its gravity affects light that passes by.
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Are gamma rays faster than light?

High-speed particle jets from gamma-ray bursts may exceed the speed of light in surrounding gas clouds, but do so without violating Einstein's theory of relativity, says a team of astrophysicists from the Michigan Technological University and the College of Charleston.
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Can tachyons escape a black hole?

Since the disturbance of a localized tachyon cannot spread faster than c, it therefore cannot escape the inside of a black hole's event horizon.
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Can tachyons go back in time?

One of the fundamental postulates of special relativity is that the laws of physics should be the same in all non-accelerating reference frames. That means if tachyons can violate causality and move backward in time in one reference frame, it can do it in them all.
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What is tachyon made of?

In the 1967 paper that coined the term, Gerald Feinberg proposed that tachyonic particles could be made from excitations of a quantum field with imaginary mass.
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Is NASA building a warp drive?

DARPA and NASA Scientists Accidentally Create Warp Bubble for Interstellar Travel. A Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-funded research project at NASA's Johnson Space Center may have accidentally discovered how to build a warp drive engine. The scientists published their findings in July.
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Why is warp 10 Impossible?

Our solution was to redraw the warp curve so that the exponent of the warp factor increases gradually, then sharply as you approach Warp 10. At Warp 10, the exponent (and the speed) would be infinite, so you could never reach this value.
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Do you age at the speed of light?

Re: How would you age at the speed of light

The simple answer is, anything moving through space at c, equal to the speed of light in a vacuum, experiences zero time flow. If you were to travel at the speed of light, you would experience no time.
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