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  2. I've just had a thought... Einstein's Law of Relativity states that to obtain the speed of light you must have infinite energy. So basically, to go faster is impossible. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)

     

    If you turn on a light in your living room, the light that leaves the light-bulb is travelling the speed of light. That's a given. But that only requires 60 watts. So basically, it takes almost no energy to create light. Basically, to create something that travels the speed of light. While the mass of a light proton is almost nothing, it still has mass.

     

    What I'm saying is, basically all we need to do is find an energy source that has a reaction equal to the amount of mass in an object. While it may take a long time to get an object as large as, say, the Enterprise, up to light speed, why not something smaller? And why does it have to be an object? Why can such a technology be applied to communications?

     

    I don't know how fast radio waves travel. Could someone enlighten me?

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    You're not creating light (photons are particles of matter). The heating of gases and the tungsten produce light because of a special property of metals I will not go into because we might go off on a tangent.

     

    The square root of the energy over the square root of the mass = the speed of light.

     

    Plug in the number for the speed of light and plug in the number you need for mass. Then you can calculate the amount of energy you need for that specific mass.