Speed of light!

Hello everyone. So you heard of people (in vehicles, except some daredevils) breaking the sound barrier. What about breaking the light barrier?

First of all, what is the speed of light?

The speed of light is 670,616,629 miles per hour (1,079,252,848, kilometers per hour) or 299,792,458 meters per second. Which is pretty fast if you think about it.

Only a few subatomic particles can move at the the speed of light. The most well known is the photon, or a particle of light. The others are tachyons, neutrinos, etc.

There were many times in experiments where they say that something moved faster than the speed of light. The most recent one was the OPERA experiment. They said that the neutrinos they released to travel across a distance went faster than the speed of light. However, it was later comfirmed that this was due to a clock error, making the clock tick faster than normal time.

Besides, breaking the speed of light would be universally impossible because to speed up a(n) object which has mass to the speed of light would take more energy than the entire universe has. Only massless particles can go at the speed of light.

So it's possible to break the sound barrier, but literally impossible to break the sound barrier. Even the Road Runner (beet, beet!) can't break the light barrier.

Interesting fact of the day: Did you know that caffeine can increase metabolic rates, increased attention, and can lower the risk of cardiovascular and diabetic dieseases! Just don't drink a lot. Just drink a couple of cups per week.