Can Anything Go Faster Than the Speed of Light?

any opinion?

This is a really interesting scientific debate that examines the speed of light and possibilities of traveling faster.  There have been some far out explanations about black holes that can warp light and the like but perhaps is that faster or slower than light itself?  And recently there have been discussions about “tachyons” or some kind of mysterious cosmic particle that indeed does travel faster.

 

The ever adventurous scientific video maker “Vsauce” asks this very question.  His explanations and examples may surprise you.

Do you think he is too far out there or does he pose some strong examples to ponder over?

Let’s find out what the narrator thinks could go faster in the video on page 2

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392 Comments

  1. Yon Tanner said:

    How about something that has been there berore time itself. Something that time doesn’t affect. It doesn’t care about light or speed. Just raw unjust power that reaches across the whole universe and quite possibly other universes that our surrounding ours that all dance majestically to a constant field that holds everything in place to destroy and peacefully insert existence of life that has no relativity to the subject at hand.

    (Does that help? Lol)

  2. Rodney Stebel said:

    Speed, time, gravity…once someone enters a “door” in seconds to a given point one million light years away, perhaps we will move up a ring on the cosmic ladder.

  3. Yon Tanner said:

    But it does reach across the universe thought. So how does it work? If you figure it is like a magnet that attracts…. then what the hell is it repelling? Is that the actual vacuum of space itself. So this thing is huge, but has no mass. Just a thought. Gra….vi……ty.

  4. Brian Bennington said:

    Limitless. There is always something heavier, faster ect ect. We can’t wrap our heads around these facts. That our universe is limitless in all aspects.

  5. Peter Truman-Osness said:

    Why does it have to be something at all? Why can’t space be just an appearance, rather than a physical thing isn’t it possible that it’s the absence of a physical entity? It’s like the question of what’s outside of the universe, if the universe has a physical size as the theory goes? I know that changes the acceptable theory about how the big bang was formed, if space doesn’t have a physical size but is just an infinite zone where energy and matter can interact freely, but I actually do have a fairly simple theory on that… well, simple in concept, but I don’t know enough higher math to express it as a proper equation.

  6. Peter Truman-Osness said:

    Actually, my theory posits that the “big bang” was just one of infinite big bangs, with a combined energy large enough to expand the observable universe at the rate we understand, which is enough energy to cause radiation interference as a shock wave which would deflect the energy of the universe at large (around 4×10 to the 74th power joules). The estimated mass energy of the observable universe is typically 10×4 to the 69th joules, but a few orders more magnitude gives the required energy to deflect outside radiation from reaching most areas of the observable universe.

  7. Peter Truman-Osness said:

    According to Einstein theor of relativity and special relativity, yes. But please check my comment at top and let me know what you think about my potential hypothesis

  8. Timothy Pruden said:

    Space itself can. Supposedly tachyons. Darkness travels faster than light, although that’s a rather esoteric concept. Entanglement reactions/interactions.

  9. William Walker said:

    You’re picking at a typo. Then you typed “are own”…
    I reckon a recheck and edit is often in order when using todays’ technology
    .
    The human thought process must be faster than the speed of light.

  10. Don R. Hudson said:

    It is a question of relativity, literally. Objects at the edge of the universe are constantly exponentially acceleraring. Theoretically, space itself is already moving faster than light.

  11. Corey Keeling said:

    Why has no one said Extraterrestrial Life yet?! If we believe that aliens visit our planet than we must assume they can travel faster than light. As of known particles…idts

  12. Peter Truman-Osness said:

    Lol actually it’s all mine. Except the energy numbers for the universe, I couldn’t read my handwriting tbh, so I had to look up the joules info again.

  13. Jim Bishop said:

    Not long ago, people questioned if the speed of sound could be broken. It was. It would make sense, then, that there must be a way to go faster than light. It’s just a more complicated problem. The real question is should it be done. Another world, even oxygen-rich, could quickly poison a traveller. The resources we would bring back from another world might easily do the same.

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