obviously it's impossible (right now) to travel the speed of light. unless we turn to energy, it isn't happening.
i'm sure you have much more knowledge about the subject (i'm still in 10th grade), but I think it's pretty early to say it's absolutely impossible.
Theories about limits (such as speed) have been ongoing for hundreds of years. It's presumptive to say we've found out the peak speed this early in human history. Just like scientists have discovered "dark matter" (the invisible matter that is making the universe speed up fast er and farther away from each other) and up to ten dimensions (or is it 11?), nwhole new factors will be discovered constantly that could alter how everything else is explained. If nothing related to the subject are discovered from here until the end of mankind, then ****, we're in our golden age of all mankind already (</sarcasm>)!
1000 years from now there could be a technology so different from what we consider orthodox today. Tens, if not hundreds, of new theories regarding the subject will have been produced by then.
From my quick google search, there is a constant debate on whether there is a speed faster than light http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physi...html#conclusion
The thing about science is that scientists make discoveries on the foundation of previous discoveries. Newton didn't have the access to new theories that Einstein did, and Einstein won't have access to the new theories that future scientists do. Future scientists might have to alter Einstein's theories just like previous scientists had to alter Galileo's. If Galileo had lived in a later period, he might not have made his heliocentric theory (the sun is the center of the universe), but based on what scientific information was available to him at the time, his heliocentric theory was pretty damn good.
You can't count out what you don't know.
i'm sure you have much more knowledge about the subject (i'm still in 10th grade), but I think it's pretty early to say it's absolutely impossible.
Theories about limits (such as speed) have been ongoing for hundreds of years. It's presumptive to say we've found out the peak speed this early in human history. Just like scientists have discovered "dark matter" (the invisible matter that is making the universe speed up fast er and farther away from each other) and up to ten dimensions (or is it 11?), nwhole new factors will be discovered constantly that could alter how everything else is explained. If nothing related to the subject are discovered from here until the end of mankind, then ****, we're in our golden age of all mankind already (</sarcasm>)!
1000 years from now there could be a technology so different from what we consider orthodox today. Tens, if not hundreds, of new theories regarding the subject will have been produced by then.
From my quick google search, there is a constant debate on whether there is a speed faster than light http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physi...html#conclusion
The thing about science is that scientists make discoveries on the foundation of previous discoveries. Newton didn't have the access to new theories that Einstein did, and Einstein won't have access to the new theories that future scientists do. Future scientists might have to alter Einstein's theories just like previous scientists had to alter Galileo's. If Galileo had lived in a later period, he might not have made his heliocentric theory (the sun is the center of the universe), but based on what scientific information was available to him at the time, his heliocentric theory was pretty damn good.
You can't count out what you don't know.