Will humans ever achieve light speed?

[Timco]

Originally Posted by jb92563

I second this opinion.

I think that depletion of natural resouces and over population will intersect in 200 years.

We will have our hands full with just trying to survive then, which inevitabilly will lead to wars over dwindling resouces, civil unrest and anarchy in the broad populations, collapse of governments etc

Besides I think Obama already canceled that reseach project.

Traveling at the speed of light is not nearly as problematic as navigating faster than the speed of light to avoid hitting things that you can not see because the light indicating their presence has not reached you yet.

You just need the right tires......

[Daniel R]

I am in the JFP and Particle camp, impossible to reach the speed of light.

In terms of traversing great distances however, I believe that in the future we will learn how to use gravity, possibly simulated gravity even, to manipulate space-time. This would effectively make distant places "come to us" if you will, rather than us traveling to them. Better still, nothing about this violates any natural law that we know... yet.

[san rensho]

There once was a man named Bright
Who could travel faster than light
He set out one day
In a relative way
And came back the previous night.

[Timco]

Maybe ludacris speed is more doable?

[jdlmodelt]

we will come to a day when we will realize that we can somehow combine with light and discover travel at the speed of light.