RE: To Infinity and Beyond!

"Wow I really can't believe it... How can something even be able to out-speed "light"? I mean first of all, how can they even MEASURE light." -Ken Phan

My guess on how to measure light is that they first have a starting point.  The starting point shoots out light particles (or waves) called "photons".  Then, they set up an ending point, which detects the photons when passed through.  Using the time it takes for it to travel a set distance, they calculate it using the "distance x rate over time" formula.  The approximate speed of light is 3.00x10^8 m/s.  Now, it takes a very strong machine to detect the instant that light is passed through, since it's traveling at the speed of light.  If you think light is fast, think about the stars that we look up to at night.  That light may be from thousands of years ago.  That gives a new perspective in the vastness of space. 

To travel faster than light, you have to have almost no mass.  As we get closer and closer to the speed of light, our mass increases with it.  Therefore, we can get close to it, but never reach it.  However, you can travel ahead of the speed of light, by using "wormholes" or "distorted space time".  Wormholes can transport from one place to another, sort of like teleportation.  Distorted space time is when space and time gets all mixed up.  That can enable you to "fast-forward", but not speed up.  The time in the distortion area is faster than the area around it, so it seems like you move faster, but you are still traveling at the same speed.

There is a way to travel faster than the speed of light, however, you need infinite energy with an endless amount of time and finite acceleration, or infinite acceleration and a finite amount of time.  That is not possible because we do not have "infinite" energy.  Energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only changed or transferred.  To travel faster than light, means the possibility of "time-travel", which begs the question, has anyone in the future manage to go faster than the speed of light and, therefore, travel back in time to change events?  Who knows...