If light is a wave, then can linear motion go faster than light?
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No. Nothing with Mass can achieve the speed of light.
As an object with Mass approaches the speed of light, the amount of energy to move faster increases exponentially. c^2
Now, RELATIVE MOTION, can appear to exceed the speed of light. Two objects moving away from each other will appear, to each other, to be moving faster than light. But individually they can not exceed it from their own frame of reference.
To the best of our understanding of the laws of physics, nothing can travel faster than light. NOTHING.
Nothing with MASS, can travel at light speed.
Light has no mass.
One can not travel at the speed of light without becoming light.
Okay, look, we can mathematically show it is possible to exceed the speed of light if we can warp space time before and behind the spacecraft without violating special relativity but that is NOT the craft moving Faster Than Light, it is the manipulation of SPACE-TIME while the craft moves at sublight speed and compresses space time to effectively move faster than light. This would take amounts of energy that are only produced by stars and black holes.
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