The Speed of Light

[Kutan]

In relation to something reaching the speed of light... Is there any explanation about what it might look like when something attains that speed? I know when something reaches the speed of sound, a loud crack rings out, so are there any effects of something reaching light's speed?

 

Does anyone think we will ever reach the speed of light? I know it's such an immense speed, anything we might have to use in such a process would probably just disintegrate..

 

Edit: I know this is a very random thread for so few questions but uhhh... I don't know what I was going to say.. It might be the lack of sleep talking.... Sorry.

[Jay-qu]

Its great that your so keen to ask questions about this stuff, but if you are just looking for answers it may be faster just to do a quick search - as most of these have been asked before :) then if you still have doubts or need more clarification you can post in that topic, or if appropriate start a new thread :)

 

As far as we know there is no known method of traveling at or greater than c (the speed of light in a vacuum) - but there are some interesting discussion going on about FTL communication at the moment. Some particles do travel faster than light, within a given medium, producing a sort of EM boom. This is called Cherenkov Radiation.

[Kutan]

Cool and uhm.. Yeah, sorry about the first part, I forgot there was a search button. *Smacks himself upside the head*