will humans ever figure out how to travel faster than light?

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#1 verparanoidpers
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#2 Luminouslight
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I doubt it.
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#3 GenTom
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lol what the hell?

Yes........?

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#4 pinneyapple
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I hope so.
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#5 LS07
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probably not since current science says its not possible
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#6 Big_player
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i think we should ask the question is it possble for anything to travel faster then light before we ask can humans travel faster then light.
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#7 Brainkiller05
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It's not possible.

and if it was you would arrive at a destination before you departed... and that doesn't even make sense

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#8 edd678
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Doubt it.
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#9 Indestructible2
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Let me repair my time machine and i'll find out for you :)
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#11 FragStains
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Right after we figure out how to make Friday come before Thursday.
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#12 Luminouslight
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i think we should ask the question is it possble for anything to travel faster then light before we ask can humans travel faster then light.Big_player

We have been able to accelerate particles to the speed of light, but nothing else really...

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#13 LS07
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Let me repair my time machine and i'll find out for you :)Indestructible2

ahh but a time machine is theoretically possible, at least one that goes forward

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#14 Big_player
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It's not possible.

and if it was you would arrive at a destination before you departed... and that doesn't even make sense

: - ]

Brainkiller05

its not that you would actually appear there before you left its just the way it would appear to human eyes.
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#15 limpbizkit818
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Yes, but first we need another Cold War.

"Zomg who will travel at the speed of light first!"

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#16 DivergeUnify
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There's a law that says if you apply 1G of acceleration for a month you can reach 9/10th the speed of light
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#17 Honenheim
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that would be highly unlikely, 1st we need the technology god knows how long that would take.
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#18 Indestructible2
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[QUOTE="Indestructible2"]Let me repair my time machine and i'll find out for you :)LS07

ahh but a time machine is theoretically possible, at least one that goes forward

I fixed it,and NO,humans DON'T ever find a way to go past 186,000 miles per second,we'll all die on December 12,2012 :(

And if anyone wants to know,i was the one who actually killed the dinosaurs,i just threw the asteroid into the yucatan just to confuse you all :)

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#19 TongHua
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I don't think you can figure out how to break the laws of physics.
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#20 verparanoidpers
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I don't think you can figure out how to break the laws of physics.TongHua
well, if space is a flat plane as postulated by the theory of general relativity, then woulden't it theoretically be possible to create a wormhole and travel outside this plane?
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#21 whatsit2ya
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no because it is impossible, if you're thinking of time travel then it is possible with the multiple universe theory.
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#22 realistgamer
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i don't think are bodies will be able to handle that type of speed and are minds wouldn't be able to wrap around it, though the only people that would handle it would probablybe captain kirk and chuck norris :lol:
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#23 turgore
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Right after we figure out how to make Friday come before Thursday.FragStains

Change the damn calendar. Anyway I think it's possible by compressing space but that would be mroe like a portal.

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#24 BrokenNaginata
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[QUOTE="LS07"]

[QUOTE="Indestructible2"]Let me repair my time machine and i'll find out for you :)Indestructible2

ahh but a time machine is theoretically possible, at least one that goes forward

I fixed it,and NO,humans DON'T ever find a way to go past 186,000 miles per second,we'll all die on December 12,2012 :(

And if anyone wants to know,i was the one who actually killed the dinosaurs,i just threw the asteroid into the yucatan just to confuse you all :)

It's December 21, 2012 actually. Everyone remember to open your Christmas presents early that year!

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#25 Bourbons3
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Chuck Norris already has
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#26 mark4091
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Maybe we will find a way to bypass the laws of physics..... but lets get a car that runs on renewable resourses first.
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#27 SilvrDog
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Ok, first of all Time Travel is possible but only going forward in time and not back. Second of all Light speed is extremely fast. Light Speed is 299,792 KM or 185,871 MPH. It would take a ship along time to reach that speed. With what we are using for fuel right now, we can not reach that speed. I think that they would need a Nuclear reactor to power a ship to that speed.
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#28 _LiquidFlame_
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IDK, probably
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#29 hollywood6258
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topicverparanoidpers

yes and we already have, using a particle accelerator to create an immense amount of energy a wormhole within quantum foam could be created and expanded allowing humans to travel anywhere in our universe and others in a matter of seconds

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#30 Goldeneyemaster
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Not possible.
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#31 Darth_Tyrev
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It's considered impossible. So I doubt it. Even if we built a space ship for whatever that went that fast, we'd also have to figure out a way for humans not to be killed inside it.
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#32 kulmiye
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It is possible with imaaaaaaagination..... otherwise keep on dream :P..
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#33 Big_Bad_Sad
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Let me check my crystal ball
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Let me check my crystal ballBig_Bad_Sad

On a completely unrelated note.....your lot got lucky this weekend :(

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#35 MiniGuns
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No because traveling faster than the speed of light will make the ship expand forever.
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#36 SilvrDog
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I don't understand why people think we would die inside the ship at light speed.

Sure, if we just hit the gas peddle and right away hit light speed, we would get thrown against the inside of the ship and pop. All they would have to do is to create a small pod for us to lay in while traveling high speeds.

No its not like Star Trek where you can stand when you hit light speed. 

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#37 manningbowl135
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probably not since current science says its not possibleLS07

It's not possible.

and if it was you would arrive at a destination before you departed... and that doesn't even make sense

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#38 Conanfan1
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Eyeshield 21 can do it.
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#39 Blazin_Ice
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Well, we can launch atoms to speeds of that very close to the speed of lights. So my hypothesis is that, overtime, yes, we might just be able to travel at or around the speed of light.
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#40 Green_Iugana
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It would take tens of thousands of years to make the technology to be able to do so
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#41 NaiKoN9293
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It would take literally INFINITE energy to go at 100% of the lights speed. So we CAN NOT travel at lights speed, but we cannot rule out that there may be ways AROUND it.
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#42 banedonoes
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i think theirs a jet that is faster than sound
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#43 socomgamer324
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i think theirs a jet that is faster than sound banedonoes

haha sound is slow. its only around 700 mph

light is like 185,000 mph

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#44 FlaminDeath
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*cough physically impossible cough*

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#45 jackelhunter
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[QUOTE="banedonoes"]i think theirs a jet that is faster than sound socomgamer324

haha sound is slow. its only around 700 mph

light is like 185,000 mph

no, its about 186,000 miles per second in a vaccum (sp?). but we don't know if even light can go that fast because if light has a mass of even a little more than 0, then it won't be able to. i wish i could explain more, but I don't remember everything that the article said.

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#46 middito
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/sigh* ok there are two ways of traveling From point A to point B, currently humans can only travel from point A to point B by physically trekking the distance from point A to point. The other way is by manipulating the positions of point A to point B. let me dumb it down for you

First way of traveling: ok your sitting at the dinner table and you to go to the refrigerator. From Point A (the seat) you would get up and walk to the refrigerator (point B). this is the normal way we humans travel through out physical plain.

Second way of traveling: Ok your sitting at the dinner table and you want to go to the refrigerator. From point A (the seat) you would manipulate the distance between point A&B, thus making it shorter.

what i'm trying to get at is that it is possible (technically)to travel faster than lightby Warping space&time(as space and time are related).

----think i should wrap this up

Summary: yes it is possible to travel faster than light, but by unconventional travel means: either by "wormholes" "jumps" warpingspace and manipulating the space medium.

howis it possibleby using techonology? i personally dont know how humans can achieve the second type of traveling.Ask a physics professor or wait till the unified theory is verified( string theory?)

Either way it's to early in human tech developement to simply say no it isnt possible.

btw the speed of sound is 600mph not 700mph

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#47 middito
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other things i left out

speed of light is 185,000 miles Per Second.

and Teleportation is still considered the first type of travel as i mentioned earlier. (if you can somehow merge and master teleportation with space distortion the you can almost go anywhere in the universe in theory)

Master gravity and one could do the unimaginable

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#48 Putzwapputzen
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nope, were retarded.
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#49 kevint1818
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Its wierd. I coulda sworn 300 years ago I was in this forum and someone said "will we every build something that makes us fly?".

Heck yeah its possible.
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#50 RamboSymbiot
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hell yea