amshak":o6ma0ym9 said:
I am willing to know the answer. If yes Can You Give me Suggistions About this . Can we achive this by Utilizing COSMIC RAYS. I want to Know Your Ideas . I am a bit curious . So I am Hopping For Imaginative Answers :!:
-Amshak...
This can be explained through Einstein's equation, E=mc^2:
Energy is equal to mass times the speed of light, squared. What Einstein was saying is that mass and energy are two different states of the same thing. Mass can be converted to energy and vise versa.
So how does this apply to traveling at the speed of light?
As both MeteorWayne and Einstein have said, nothing with mass can travel at
C (the speed of light). Photons are massless packets of light, whom have not aged since the beginning of the universe!
So, if we take a look at Einstein's equation, and mass and energy are two versions of the same thing, if we have more energy, we have more mass, and if we have more mass, we have more energy. As an object of mass (anything other than a photon) travels closer and closer to
C, it becomes more massive, therefore requiring more energy to push it to a greater velocity. Mass continues to build as an object approaches
C, continuously requiring more energy.
This means that at .5
C the object is far more massive than at rest. At .9
C again, more massive. The closer and closer you get towards the speed of light the more energy you need to get there. Eventually, you will come to the conclusion that it requires an infinite amount of energy to propel your infinitely growing amount of mass. Even at .9999999999 light speed you will still never acquire the needed energy to push you the last fraction to lightspeed. In other words, there's just not enough energy in all the known universe to get your tiny ship to the speed of light.