Faster Than Light: Can We Do It?

By: Tsegazeab Beteselassie
   

Faster than light: This is a picture of a space pod going faster than light.
Picture from:motls.blogspot.com 

    In everyday life, we have almost no need of going  1/5,000 the speed of light, let alone faster than it. Even in space, the fastest spacecraft, New Horizons, can't go even 1/500 the speed of light(56,000 miles per hour). However, scientists are thinking of space travel into other star systems, because Earth is sustaining more and more people, and eventually, we will run out of room. We could always just build more and more International Space Stations (ISS), but...

- first, it's costly.

- second, it takes a long time to make one.

-and third, we will eventually run out of materials for the ISS.

The good news is that this problem can be solved. How? Read on to find out.

    Since International Space Stations are too costly and time draining to make one, is there no way to escape a overpopulated planet? Actually, there is. Scientists have recently discovered not one planet, but four, capable of hosting life (if you read the next sentence, you'll see why I suddenly start talking about hosting life on other planets). And if this life can breathe the same amount of oxygen and other particles in the air as we do, then bingo, we found a new planet! If you want to know all about the planets, click here. But there is one last planet. What is it? Read the next paragraph to see what it is.

    Scientists have found that --> Mars <-- (the planet I was talking about) used to have a thick atmosphere to sustain life. Now it doesn't. However, if we can make an earthlike atmosphere, then we have jumped a big milestone in living on Mars. And soon, we will be able to make Mars into Earth. Still, there is one problem. How are we going to recreate Earth, on Mars? (if you want to know, read my next post: Terraforming Mars: How To Do It)*
 

Mars: This is Mars.
Picture from:wonderfanatic.wordpress.com 

So let's say that we already Terraformed Mars. Now what? Well, we move in. But there is a problem. It takes about four months for a shuttle to get to Mars without any humans. And that is when Mars is really close. We can't just launch 20 humans every eighteen years. We need a faster, fuel-efficient way to get to Mars. And that fast and fuel-efficient way is the speed of light.

 

    So let me get to the point. "How can we get to the speed of light without incinerating?" There are actually two ways to do this, but one is better than the other. One has something to do with a feedback loop (if your going to click the link to wikipedia, look at the picture for a visual aid of what a feedback loop might look like), and the other, and electromagnetic wave. What are those theories? If you want to know, keep on reading.

 

    So how can we go faster than light? Well, my first theory is this. Imagine that we shoot a small space pod at escape velocity (the speed that rockets travel). We go this fast with nuclear energy**. Then we go faster and faster to 50% the speed of light. As you know, Einstein said that the closer an object gets to the speed of light, the energy you spend making it that fast got turned into matter, thus, making it heavier. If we change all that matter back to energy, it will change the energy back into matter. And if we make it turn back to energy at a precise rate, the space pod won't get heavier nor lighter. This is a feedback loop. And the matter we just changed into energy propels the space pod even faster. Soon, it will reach the speed of light. Then faster.

    I told you in the last paragraph that using a feedback loop, we can go faster than the speed of light. However, there is another way. You can make a machine that keeps track of the order of your molecules. Then, it turns you into an electromagnetic wave (they can go faster then the speed of light! After all, light is an electromagnetic wave), and beams you off. However, since there are A LOT of radio waves, one might get tangled up with your electromagnetic wave, or even worse, another electromagnetic wave gets mixed up with your wave. Then, you might be two people mixed together, or have a foot in your head, or whatever. Even super-fast speeds can't give you absolute protection from that. And when we get to a new planet, we might perish because we haven't checked the air with a space pod. So I prefer the first method. It's safer.

    So now we created a way to go faster than the speed of light. We can now have the technology to go to new planets.

*I'll give you a clue how to Terraform Mars. Melting Ice Caps.
 One week later...
Here's my post I just finished. Terraforming Mars: How to Do It

**Nuclear energy drains the power of atoms and uses it for energy.

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