What Will Happen If We Reach The Speed Of Light By The End Of The Decade?

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What will happen if we reach the speed of light by the end of the decade

Breaking records is something that mankind loves doing, but have you ever thought what will happen if we break the highest record there is in our history? Let’s dig deep today and find out what will happen if we ever reach the speed of light by the end of the decade!
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We humans definitely love competition, right? I mean just look at our entire history. We have ventured into wars for power and for territory. We developed sports and the Olympics. We have developed competitive gaming. And as if those weren’t competitive enough, we even have contests for eating!

These examples tell us that proving we are better than another entity is something that is genetically embedded in us, and helps us develop our own kind better in more ways than one.

Now, combining that with our insane curiosity -- see what I did there? -- we have come to one of humanity’s greatest endeavors in recent memory: reaching the universe's ultimate speed limit, the speed of light.

Whatever the main reason is, travelling in the speed of light has been one of fiction writing’s favorite bread and butter: from the Millennium Falcon’s jump into hyperdrive speed in Star Wars, to DC’s beloved speedsters in the Flash universe, writers all over the world definitely share this common fantasy of us as a species reaching lightspeed.

So, what’s so special about reaching this level of speed?

No, let’s take that up a notch. What’s so special if ever we reach the speed of light by the end of the decade? Do we finally get the cure for cancer? Do we finally end all wars and achieve world peace? Does global warming end instantaneously?

Well, we’re not really sure. But who knows? There could be an overlap where our ingenuity causes us to solve all of these upon the discovery of speed of light travel!

Easily, the most obvious answer is that we can travel farther into the universe since we can move faster. The farther we can travel, the more we will know and eventually understand about the universe.

Just for a bit of perspective, let’s start with a very familiar example. Something as common as the light from the sun reaching the Earth.

If you listened to your elementary astronomy, or in any out of the pocket science outlets out there, you probably have already heard that light needs more or less eight minutes to reach our home planet. And that’s not an easy distance to cover! The average distance of the Sun to the Earth is around 149 million kilometers -- or 92.3 million miles if you're one of our friends from the USA.

Now, imagine if the world’s fastest land vehicle, the Thrust SSC, was set on an adventure to do one trip from here to our own star. Don’t be a killjoy, let’s just assume that it’s possible.Okay?

Even at its supersonic speed of 1228 kilometers per hour, it would take around 14 years just to get there, meaning 28 years for a round trip! A baby could be born at its launch date and become a fully grown office worker by the time it gets back. Travelling at light speed, on the other hand, can do that with ease just around the time you finish that video. Let that craziness sink in for a minute.
Remember the Mars probes that arrived at the red planet just this February? That journey took them almost a year, but if they are moving at the speed of light, that journey would’ve just taken roughly around three minutes.
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