{"id":188239,"date":"2024-04-27T20:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T01:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/why-cant-we-go-faster-than-light"},"modified":"2024-04-27T20:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T01:22:24","slug":"why-cant-we-go-faster-than-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/why-cant-we-go-faster-than-light","title":{"rendered":"Why Can\u2019t We Go Faster Than Light?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kELX0GEQ0H0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Imagine you\u2019re in a car, pedal to the metal, racing down the highway, but no matter how hard you push, you can\u2019t surpass the speed of the car next to you, which is effortlessly cruising at the same pace. Now, replace the car with light, and you have a real cosmic conundrum: why can\u2019t anything go faster than light?<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1905, Albert Einstein turned the world of physics upside down with his theory of relativity. This wasn\u2019t just about E=mc\u00b2 or the bending of space-time; it was about something that touches everything we do: the speed of light, which is roughly 299,792 kilometers per second. According to relativity, no matter how fast you\u2019re moving towards or away from a light source, you will always measure the speed of light at the same constant velocity.<\/p>\n<p>This leads us to a mind-boggling realization. As objects speed up, their mass increases. At the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wecb.fm\/godspeed-you-black-emperor-presents-new-music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">speed<\/a> of light, their mass would become infinite. So, to move an object at the speed of light would require infinite energy, which, quite frankly, is impossible with our current understanding of physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine you\u2019re in a car, pedal to the metal, racing down the highway, but no matter how hard you push, you can\u2019t surpass the speed of the car next to you, which is effortlessly cruising at the same pace. Now, replace the car with light, and you have a real cosmic conundrum: why can\u2019t anything [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}