Re: Space Travel

James Colvier wrote:
I was wondering if anybody knew anything about the possibility of
traveling faster than the speed of light. I studied E=mc2, but if I
understand it correctly, that doesn't actually state that it isn't
possible. If it were possible, what would it require, and how would it
operate?

-James Colvier

It would require new physics. No known elementary particles can travel faster than the speed of light. And even if such particles existed there's still the problem traveling faster than c, in other words, of transporting your body - which exists of ordinary, "slow" particles - with a speed greater than c.

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