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Old 06-20-2003, 06:59 AM  
ADL Colin
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I didn't read this whole thread but Einstein didn't say that. According to the equations in Einstein's paper on the Special Theory of Relativity, if an object is travelling faster than the speed of light, time dilation will be imaginary (square root of a negative number). Einstein took that to be a non-solution (sometimes happens when math and physics meet), not as travel into the past.

In essence, one can't accelerate through the speed of light so physically it is meaningless (at least in the framework of Relativity).

There is a proposed particle (tachyon) which would be able to travel faster than the speed of light but they can never travel slower than the speed of light. No one has found one.

According to Einstein's Special Relativity, you can't go through the speed of light barrier. That is the essence of the equations.
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