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You are being downvoted for your misunderstanding, which is too bad.

In a nutshell, no matter how much energy you pump into your system, you will never go faster than the speed of light, relative to any other viewpoint.

That is, you would never appear to go faster than the speed of light to anyone - including somebody travelling at the same speed as you in the opposite direction.



The universe outside your window won't be passing by faster than the speed of light either. But that's a bit moot, since Lorentz contraction will make the distances in your line of travel shorter. Also time will pass more slowly for you. So subjectively, it's true that you can get anywhere in an arbitrarily small amount of time if you have arbitrarily large amounts of energy, but the rest of the universe will still see you only approaching the speed of light.


No, b6 has it right, you can travel as fast as you want. The universe will get squished along your direction of travel, effectively increasing the speed of light (relative to the distance you're traveling) as your speed increases.


Relative being the key word. With a sufficiently fast ship you could fly across the universe in your lifetime - but you'd get home to find the sun a cinder and earth long gone.


This is not true. Even in your frame of reference, you cannot go faster than the speed of light.


You certainly cannot travel as fast as you want. The speed of light is the speed limit of the universe, to all observers.




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