Tuesday, 9 December 2014

special relativity - Why is travelling around the speed of light a problem?


I don't fully understand what would happen if we could travel at the speed of light. But I saw somewhere here that it would mean events happen out of order. But why is this a problem. It is said that cause has to happen before the effect, but why does this have to be linear?


And why is it that the speed of light is the maximum? I take it that light (photons?) are massless, so why can't they travel faster?





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