speed of light

Philippines
April 11, 2007 1:59pm CST
Do you think we'll ever beat the speed of light?
8 responses
@balasri (26537)
• India
26 Oct 08
The g-forces would crush any mortal.
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
12 Jul 08
that would be outstanding...
@drannhh (15219)
• United States
1 Jan 08
I think that any measurement that "man" is able to create will be able to be broken. That just seems to me to be the nature of things. Whenever a new idea comes along there is a human tendency to respond to it in one of several ways: 1) Say that cannot be done! 2) Say those who do it are evil! 3) Say that can be done but not in my lifetime. 4) Say it will be done and I cannot wait to try it! 5) Say "Here, let me help!" or, and here is a thought: 6) Say "Been there, done that..."
@zhwbeast (326)
• China
30 Dec 07
Yes,I think we will beat but it would be a long time. In my opinion,the improving of our human's power is endless and the knowledge also will enlarge alone with it. Also, there have many things human have not known of the world,just as the ancestor thought the speed of sound is the most quickly speed.
@jxdos123 (122)
• Hong Kong
9 Jul 08
If we do eventually travel faster than the speed of light, we will also be travelling through time. If you think about it, when something happens, its light travels into our eyes and we notice it has happened. but if we travel faster than light, we can escape from the earth and into space (before the event travels as light into our eyes), and return to earth faster than the speed of light to a time before the event has happened. at that point, you would be travelling into the past and changing the future. However, Einstein has proven in one of his theories that it is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light. if a train is travelling at 50km/hour and someone was walking on the train at 1km/hour, he would look like he is traveling at 51km per hour from the eye. However, if the train was travelling at the speed of light and he was walking at 1km/hour, he will still be seen as travelling at the speed of light. So technically, the speed of light cannot be beaten.
@lou1982 (122)
11 Jul 08
i think we will look at how far we have come just in the last hundred years or so just think of a thousand years in the future what technology will exist
11 Apr 07
no i do not think we will beat the speed of light because it is to fast, we broke the speed of sound but light is to far out of reach, even if we did it won't be for a very long time, because rockets that go into space are not travelling that close to the speed of light, and they would be the first area to really develop this technology
@ashu2077 (88)
• United States
7 Jun 07
The concept of speed is based on the light, if light did not exists then we cannot measure speed since no light particles are bouncing off the object to measure its speed. Speed can only exists if light exists. So the ultimate speed is traveling at speed of light but nothing faster. This is of course based on current knowledge. Who knows what new can be discovered.... Ash