** This thread discusses the content article: Can A Ship Travel Faster Than The Speed of Light? **

The idea that nothing can travel faster than light seems ridiculous. Not only was the book's theory of Heavy Light quite interesting, but maybe light is actually so slow that we're just unable to comprehend true speed.

Theoretically it should be possible if an object's mass is an imaginary number (one when squared or multiplied by another imaginary number gives a negative) it should be able to travel faster than the speed of light. Scientists think that there are particles called tachyons like this. (These scientists refer to normal particles as "tardyons".)

Light is actually very slow. People think it's fast, but in fact, it has ALWAYS been slow. When it was a kid, it would constantly stall and not get its homework done. When it ran track, it never won any races. And later, in college, Light could never understand even the simplest theories on hyperbolic radiocraniology.

Real speed comes from harnessing dark energy. But even the Empire hasn't figured that out yet.

Composition of the universe

Dark energy, huh? Tell us how that works. By the way, a strange thing about tachyons is that the more energy they lose, the faster they travel. This means that one of these particles can easily attain infinite energy because the faster it travels, the more it collides with other particles, therefore losing more energy.