Will we ever travel faster than the speed of light?

Jennifer Ouellette explores the question at BBC Future. Despite last year’s exciting claims that neutrinos were clocked moving faster than light, a loose cable foiled that feat. WIll anyone overcome Einstein’s limits?

Equations don’t tend to lie, especially ones that have been tested and re-tested in countless experiments for over a century. For all practical intents and purposes, the speed of light is an insurmountable threshold.

But physicists would never make any progress at all if they threw in the towel quite that easily, and nobody thinks Einstein will have the final word in perpetuity.

ORLY? I’m on team Einstein for the foreseeable future, but there’s some other ideas floating around about how to break the cosmic speed limit. We can be pretty confident that it’s not going to be neutrinos that do it, but when the bending of space comes into play … time (and therefore velocity) becomes relative. Read on to find out what that would take.

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    more like “team dumb-stein” amiright? okay, no, Einstein was a great scientist and plagiarizer blah blah blah. OF COURSE...
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    Warp drive, y’all
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