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by John Anderson on April 23rd, 2004

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Is it possible for humans to travel faster than the speed of light?

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  • by zeropointburn on April 21st, 2005

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    Perhaps...
    No mass can subjectively travel at the speed of light. It may be possible to circumvent this restriction, however. Consider NASA's breakthrough propulsion program:
    http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp/
    Sadly, no longer funded, this was the first serious investigation into the feasibility of faster-than-light and/or massless propulsion travel. Many of these methods rely on theorized properties which have not yet been observed. (all the FTL concepts fall into this category, sadly) Others, such as the Casimir effect inertial drive, are functional, but unfeasible. The Biefield-Brown effect (asymmetric field capacitor) is another candidate, but apparently NASA is currently only studying it for the purpose of producing rotational energy. Unusual, since it was originally envisioned, tested, and verified to produce linear thrust without expending reaction mass.
    See:
    http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0211001
    http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/physics/0211001
    and also:
    http://jnaudin.free.fr/lifters/main.htm
    for some interesting theory and application, with video.

    Hope that gets some gears spinning :)

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