What if we break the speed of light?

What if we break the speed of light?

superluminal travel

Then we will have invented time travel. Causality violations soon.

it would be extremely painful

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Physical matter can't break the laws set in place by the highs field, our mass drags on space time like dragging your finger through molasses, the faster you go, the more energy it takes to reach the speed of light, the more you drag on space time, chances are nothing can go faster than the disturbance of energy on a field, so the speed of light not only is impossible to reach, but a hard limit for forces

in fact, we would not be traveling in time, we would only become timeless, like the light

Information in any form cannot travel faster than light or fundamental things like cause and effect break.

what if OP stops being a faggot?

At what point does that happen? What if you just go faster and that's it and the theory doesn't scale to catastrophic effect?

what if we don't because it's not possible

Look up MInkowski Diagrams. Graphical way of visualizing problems in Special Relativity.
If faster-than-light motion is permitted (even if it's just FTL radio and not a spacecraft) signals can go backwards in time.
It's an inevitable consequence of;
A) all inertial frames being equally valid
B) everyone measuring the speed of light to be the same

Doesn't matter if travel from point 1 to point 2 faster-than-light was done by simply accelerating or by jumping through hyperspace.

And if information can go backwards in time, you can read tomorrow's Wall Street Journal to make investments today. Your investments will change the prices in tomorrow's Journal, so you couldn't have gotten that paper, which means you didn't invest... and it goes 'round and 'round.

There is no indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. - Albert Einstein, 1932
X-rays will prove to be a hoax - Lord Kelvin, 1883
According to the best theories superconductivity should not be possible above 30 kelvin. Happens at 77k.
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible — Lord Kelvin

And there are many many more.

When people work their whole life on a theory, they often forget that it's only a theory. It is an engineering tool that is valid only under certain conditions. When you assume these conditions to be absolute of course you don't see how other theories might work.

We can't say for sure before we try to accelerate something to speed of light and see what happens.

well you need infinite eneergy to accelerate something to c so it's not possible. We might get to 0.9c or so but...

Do black holes have infinite energy?

no

>What if we break the speed of light?

then you'll have to buy it.

What if 1=0?

We DO accelerate stuff to near the speed of light every day!
CERN (and a number of other places) have done it literally trillions of times.
What we see (ALWAYS!!) is that Einstein was right.

There's a difference between "engineering impossible" (No one will travel faster than sound) and "physics impossible" (perpetual motion). The former are known to be possible (bullets go faster than sound) -- but the technical difficulties of doing it with a plane were formidable.

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>stuff
And particles can tunnel trough solids, but I've yet to see car going trough wall.

OP is asking what If, but everyone is like that donkey who just keeps screaming no NO NOOO.

We all get it that current observations and theories simply forbid it. No need to recite them.

At what point things would start braking apart? Would the travelers them-self experience increase of their mass or that's just problem for acceleration against the frame of reference?

Travelers never notice anything. You don't feel short and you don't feel sluggish.
You can't tell you're moving unless you look out the window and see the Earth shrinking behind. Even then, light still passes you in all directions at the usual 300,000 per.

It's just insanely unlikely for a car to go (unscathed) through a wall. Like half of your soda spontaneously freezing while the other half boils. But QM still applies to cars.

Not everyone understands why these things are impossible. People are going to some trouble to try to explain. Don't gripe.
This "what if" question is like "what if triangles had 4 sides?"

>everything is possible if we try

Isn't this how a child perceives limits? How does it feel to be so scientifically immature that you have a literal child-like approach to it?

Do you guys also think that the power of friendship and good manners will make us break the speed of light faster?

Butterfly effect.....