I say we just dont have engines powerful enough yet, it was the same with the speed of sound, scientists sad it was impossible to break the sound barrier but technology came along and proved them wrong, it will be the same with light speed, just wait
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Rodney say: They don't know anything that isn't learned
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poldi say: No scientists said the sound barrier could not be broken.
Einstein proved that no object with mass can travel faster than the speed of light.
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YKhan say: The speed of light is the speed of time. That's the speed at which time passes through space. You go faster than the speed of time, then causes and effects go in reverse. The only reason why we call the speed of light is because light was the first substance we found that traversed at that speed, but since then we've found plenty of other things that also traverse at that speed. So it's not a limitation of just light, it's a limitation of the universe, for everything in the universe.
There are ways of bypassing the speed of light limitation by making space itself move past itself at a speed faster than light. That's called a warp drive. We know the theory behind it already, just don't know how to implement in engineering yet.
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Brigalow Bloke say: Which scientists said that supersonic flight was impossible? When and where was this reported? Did the scientists, if there were any, have any actual knowledge of aeronautics and the state of aircraft and rocket technology in say 1946?
The equations derived by Albert Einstein more than a century ago were found to be good in 1919 by Sir Arthur Eddington and many times since. The global positioning system has to take them into account and perhaps more relevant, they explain the motion of the planet Mercury around the Sun which did not quite agree with Newton's equations.