Travellers aboard a light-speed capable spacecraft would find themselves exposed to lethal levels of radiation – generated by the hydrogen atoms that drift through space – as their velocity approached the speed of light.
It is an experience one scientist describes as akin to standing in front of the beam created by the Large Hadron [...]
Great particle smasher in the sky dashes hopes of warp travel
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 18 February, 2010 to the comment subset
Could we use (or abuse) radio waves to travel at warp speeds?
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 3 July, 2009 to the technology subset
When Albert Einstein said nothing could travel faster than the speed of light, he apparently said nothing about sound waves, according to John Singleton of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, who says because radio waves do not constitute “particles and information” they are therefore exempt (in a fashion) from the universe’s ultimate speed limit.
Most people [...]
