Can
Something Move Even Faster Than Speed Of Light? Impossible
Sara
Aftab
Wonderful Engineering
Our textbooks
usually imply that nothing can travel faster than the light.
But, this statement
needs to be dissected at a granular level to be understood.
The Distant Stars
in the unchartered Space cannot be discovered, if we never break the Light
Barrier.
Hence, there is a
need to ask this crucial question, ‘if there is anything that travels faster
than light.’
The basis on which
these textbooks justify the statement is the special theory of relativity, which explains
that this may be achieved only by particles with zero rest mass.
The hypothesis of
the existence of Tachyons particles
put the debate to rest that it is possible for Tachyons to travel at
superluminal speeds.
However, physicists
disagree on the possibility of the existence of such particles, given they do
not obey causality, and an infinite amount of energy would be required to
move them at such high speeds.
The following
statement explains the phenomenon appropriately.
The Faster
Something Travels, The More Massive It Gets, And The More Time Slows – Until
You Finally Reach The Speed Of Light, At Which Point Time Stops Altogether
This is the reason
why the particles become extremely massive when most of the modern particle
accelerators achieve superluminal speeds.
Some of the events
that occur at superluminal speeds are as follows.
EXPANSION OF SPACE
The current
evidence of the fact can be seen in the phenomenon called Metric Expansion of
Space.
The rate at which
space is expanding is far greater than the speed of light and that is why light
cannot travel across the universe.
Since no particles
are involved in the expansion of the universe and its vacuum, it can travel at
such high speeds.
FLASHLIGHT SHIFT
Imagine you had a flashlight or a laser pointing at the
moon, and you quickly moved it to another heavenly body.
Now, in theory, this would qualify as the beam of light
traveling a distance of say, many light years away from the moon to this
object in a matter of seconds, making the beam travel faster than light.
If the flashlight was a laser or just the plain flashlight,
the point remains that ‘no material object’ has traveled with that speed. Also
note that laser is a particular kind of light.
QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT
Quantum entanglement is the
phenomenon where a pair or group particles form a bond when brought close to
each other.
Even when
separated, the quantum state of such pairs and groups is not defined
independently of each other.
Simply understood,
if two electrons are made to vibrate close to each other, they will do so in
unison.
Once separated, the
electrons will behave as if connected with a USB cable or an
umbilical cord, even if physically they are located light years away from
each other.
However, useful
information transfer is not possible using Quantum Entanglement, since this
barrier breach of light is random and chaotic. More on this at ERP Experiment.
EXOTIC MATTER
One way to break
light barrier is to travel through Exotic/Negative Matter, which comprises of
Tachyons particles, discussed earlier.
So we know that
there is no evidence or agreement for the existence of such matter.
However, there are
two ways to achieve that, hypothetically speaking,
1. Much like the
Time-Space warps shown in movies, these warps can help you teleport from one
place to another in no time. Compressing the space in front and expanding the
space behind, push yourself into a space-time warp.
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| A model of ‘folded’ space-time illustrates how a wormhole bridge might form with at least two mouths that are connected to a single throat or tube (via Space) |
2. By using the Wormhole, also a hypothesis. Wormholes supposedly are tunnel-like structures that connect different points in spacetime that may be billions of light years away from each other. Traveling through a wormhole will take place at speed of light locally.
Almost everyone of us wants to know what traveling at the speed of light feels like, however, it’s best not to become massive while doing so!
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