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Visiting Intergalactic Worlds.

In Our Make Believe Space Ship

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Traveling Faster Than The Speed Of Light

It is great fun to immerse ourselves in the scientific fantasy of whizzing off into outer space at many times the speed of light, visiting exotic worlds and the like.

Unfortunately, as far as we can tell, it is a fantasy simply because, as Albert Einstein and others have shown, objects cannot travel faster than the speed of light (186,000 miles per second).

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The reason is as an object goes faster and faster, its mass increases; and as the object approaches the speed of light, its mass becomes infinite, thus requiring an infinite force to accelerate an infinite mass.

However, there may be hope.

Some scientists believe there is a particle called a TACHYON (which means “swift” in Greek) that can travel faster than light and cannot be slowed down.