Ayden

This was my first ever post on this forum, and I completely forgot about it until today. And I just wanna say that seeing several replies made me really excited. Thank you guys for identifying the flaws in my proposition. I am studying to be an astrophysicist and have been searching for people who share the same passions for astronomy and physics as I do, so I figured forums would be a great idea. I really appreciate having much more knowledgeable and intelligent individuals critique my ideas, because that will definitely help me grow in this field. So thank you!

1) I'd assume it would have detectable effects such as gravitational waves or warping of the fabric of spacetime that we could detect by observing the paths of light emitted from other sources. 2) The light itself may travel at lightspeed, but the matter itself may exceed it. The only place we can detect the object would be in its most recent place in lightspeed time, even if it has moved beyond that. I'm still formulating this, it needs some work clearly.

How can we know that nothing travels faster than the speed of light (3 x 10^8 m/s)? If there were certain physical phenomena that could travel faster than light, we wouldn't be able to perceive it, since light has a limited fixed velocity. So, what if dark matter and dark energy are just phenomena that actually travel faster than light and we can't detect them through light wavelengths. We can measure its gravitational effects, but not its emission spectra.