It's technically possible to travel faster than the speed of light, you just need enough energy to create a bubble of space time that will kind of just push you though space by expanding and contracting space around you, like a fuckin quantum caterpillar . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXyQ92SPWds
I was going to say Quantam teleportation but upon further reading it can not exceed the speed of light and only works on the level of particles, not anywhere near enough for human transport.
Wow folks. This is some stereotypical stoner talk if ever I heard it. Try MIT Physics 801- Its free on ITunesU
Turn your flashlight on and throw it. speed of throw + the speed of light > speed of light. Common sense, really.
This is what I've been saying the whole time. We can't exceed the speed of light relative to its source without quantum chromatography fluctuations and tachyon decay. We can, however, go faster than the speed of light. We do it all the time. Driving with your headlights on is another example.
This is wrong.. The speed of light is constant, throwing a flashlight at 5 mph won't make the speed of light increase 5 mph, it'll only change the distance the light needs to travel. Same if you're driving at 70 mph.. You turn on your headlights and the light will be leaving the headlights at around 186,000 miles per second or 670,000,000 mph. Your 70 mph won't add to it and make it 670,000,070 mph.. If you're driving and shining your lights to someone 10 miles away, as you head their direction the only thing you'd doing is shortening the distance the light needs to travel, not the speed of which the light is traveling. Imagine the Sun. Light leaving it travels at 186,000 miles per second and is roughly 8 minutes from the Sun to Earth. If it went supernova, spewing it's matter at somewhat near light speed, let's say 165,000 miles per second, it'd still take us 8 minutes to even know. The 165,000 miles per second won't add any speed to the speed of light.. and at 165,000 miles per second, the supernova would take 9-10 minutes to hit us. So the Sun goes supernova, it'd still take 8 minutes for the light to reach us and for us to find out, then 1-2 minutes later the supernova would hit us.. Any light that is continued to be produced by the supernova will still travel at the speed of light, the only thing that'll change is the distance it needs to travel.
[quote name="Mantikore" post="19033895" timestamp="1385229656"]This is wrong.. The speed of light is constant, throwing a flashlight at 5 mph won't make the speed of light increase 5 mph, it'll only change the distance the light needs to travel. Same if you're driving at 70 mph.. You turn on your headlights and the light will be leaving the headlights at around 186,000 miles per second or 670,000,000 mph. Your 70 mph won't add to it and make it 670,000,070 mph.. If you're driving and shining your lights to someone 10 miles away, as you head their direction the only thing you'd doing is shortening the distance the light needs to travel, not the speed of which the light is traveling.Imagine the Sun. Light leaving it travels at 186,000 miles per second and is roughly 8 minutes from the Sun to Earth. If it went supernova, spewing it's matter at somewhat near light speed, let's say 165,000 miles per second, it'd still take us 8 minutes to even know. The 165,000 miles per second won't add any speed to the speed of light.. and at 165,000 miles per second, the supernova would take 9-10 minutes to hit us. So the Sun goes supernova, it'd still take 8 minutes for the light to reach us and for us to find out, then 1-2 minutes later the supernova would hit us.. Any light that is continued to be produced by the supernova will still travel at the speed of light, the only thing that'll change is the distance it needs to travel.[/quote]Shiiiit. Thanks for the correction, this guys right. However, it is possible for objects to travel faster than the speed of light in multiple instances even though no object can accelerate to the speed of light. Objects are constantly and consistently traveling faster than the speed of light.Edit: thanks again for preventing spread of misinformation, as we all know it happens a lot on this forum when someone's had a little too much