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Re: Can We Travel Faster Than Light?

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Posted by BIGDUDE/">BIGDUDE on November 3, 1999 23:41:44 UTC

If light can not travel faster than its self excpet if it is near a black hole, and then it is only for a fraction of a second. So it seems to reason that we can not since we weigh a lot more than light will ever weigh. As we get close to the speed of light our mass increases, therefore the fuel and energy needed to go to that speed would weigh us down even more making it impossibe. Don't get me wrong I wish we could travel faster than light, like on Star Trek, but ufourtanly it seems to be impossible.

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