Eureka and a Question of Physics

[moosl]

I don't watch much television, so I'm a bit behind the times here. We just saw the pilot for the SyFy series Eureka (which will now heavily populate our Netflix queue). One of the main characters in the pilot said that nothing could travel faster than the speed of light. I had thought that nothing could travel at the speed of light. Am I

Comments

[hitchhiker]

massless particles (including light!) travel exactly at the speed of light. nothing with mass can travel at the speed of light; the closer you get the harder it is to go faster.

[ohari]

what he said. something with mass can (in theory) go 99.999999999999999999999999999999999(it's nine's all the way down)% the speed of light. Light and things withough mass can go 100.000000000000(Zeroes all the way down)% of the speed of light, nothing goes faster. That we know of. Yet.