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[JeffD78]

When aircraft first came out people said it would be impossible to ever break the sound barrier. Now that's being said about going faster than light. The way I understand it, the faster you go, the more power it will take to go a little bit faster and so on up till infinity, and you'll still be under the speed of light. Anybody think we'll ever find a way to break the light barrier like we did the sound barrier?

P.S. I just crawled out of bed right before I posted this, so I'm not quite awake yet.

[SDT]

Actually the sound barrier was broken long before aircraft were around. Everyone has tried or at least seen a device that the average man can use to break the sound barrier... What device you ask? A gun.

With regards to your question... Yes, but not in our time.

[This message has been edited by SDT (edited 05-21-2000).]

[hd581]

Actually, before that, there was the whip. The crack being heard is the tip being accelerated past the sound barrier; a mini sonic boom if you will.