Meaning it's space that moves, not the ship. And no laws restricts space to light speed.
But they can get past distance over time equals speed, faster than light speed -- uh uh.
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spot a say: All scientists know that you can't exceed the speed of light. Your time slows as you approach light speed or the edge of a black hole. until you can't even move as it takes years of your time to take one step inside your spaceship. At light speed time stops for you and you can't move at all. The same happens at the event horizon of a black hole, but if you were there you would be already dead
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Nyx say: If you have a better idea on how to do just that, there are loads of space agencies, and companies who would love to talk to you.
In the meantime, why not take some physics classes, and work out what is known already.
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Boriana say: The closer and closer you get to the speed of light you will never be able to go faster than it. This is because the closer you get time starts to slow down. So for example imagine you are in a space rocket and you are traveling 2km slower than the speed of light. Surely if you just run in the same direction you are travelling you will beat the speed of light? Well the answer is no because time will actually slow down. This means that it will slow down to the point where you can't run faster than 1.99 km so no matter how hard you try you will physically not be able to run at the speed, almost the same way you probably cant run at 100km per hour on the earth. It is a very weird concept but scientists are pretty sure nothing can beat the speed of light.
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quantumclaustrophobe say: I think it's a little more involved than simply breaking the sound barrier..... as matter approaches the speed of light, it's mass begins to increase. The closer you get to the speed of light, the amount of mass tends toward infinity.
And, no matter how powerful your engine, no matter how much fuel you have to burn, you cannot push an infinite mass any faster to achieve the speed of light. At least: In *this* universe...
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