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No.

 

A real material would fall apart, and for a fictional material that didn't, there would be length contraction of any moving segment, giving you a curved geometry such that the circumference would ever exceed c. IIRC this thought experiment led Einstein into the curved geometry of General Relativity.

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Going by what they have said i'm probably wrong, but I would have thought that a 'hyperthetical' material that didn't fall apart should, in a vacuum, be able to get to ANY speed, as there would be no friction;Therefore it would keep any kinetic energy that it aquired, and would not lose its speed. If you could keep supplying more and more energy, it should just keep getting faster. :eyebrow:

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