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Moving at the speed of light

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1 hour ago, fredreload said:

Well the the point should be, what would happen when you achieve a speed faster than light. If nothing happens, well then there's nothing to look for. It could be that once you get pass the speed of light, time start going backwards? You'll need to be at a speed faster than time itself.

Just build one on earth, like hyperloop

2 hours ago, fredreload said:

Well the the point should be, what would happen when you achieve a speed faster than light

Everyone has been trying to explain that you cannot travel at or faster than the speed of light. 

7 hours ago, fredreload said:

Well the the point should be, what would happen when you achieve a speed faster than light. If nothing happens, well then there's nothing to look for. It could be that once you get pass the speed of light, time start going backwards? You'll need to be at a speed faster than time itself.

You can't get there from here. There is no physics that allows this, or describes it. You might as well be talking about what happens when you build a perpetual motion machine.

You can look at what is true for speeds v > c, and you either have to have imaginary mass or energy. Whatever that means — in much of physics, it is assumed that imaginary terms are not physical.

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