mass CAN travel at the speed of light. We just think it can;t because we have never witnessed anything in the universe that can travel faster.
- that doesn't mean there are not currently undetectable processes that DO travel faster
- They used to say it would be impossible to re-create the big bang, CERN did it pretty well on a minute scale. IIRC.
The laws of physics are broken and re-made every few decades. And with enough energy it is a sound theory that you CAN make mass travel at the speed of light. however...there are side effects of the energy release. Perhaps minute black holes/worm holes we don't know, just that if you pack that much energy behind a mass...it distorts space-time
Why do I know this? well i like to think i had a good teacher, he was my one of my physics teachers on an advanced diploma in engineering i attended. He worked for BAE systems and the AWE, AWE being the atomic weapons establishment, and BEA being a military orientated research and development company.
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TheSifodias wrote:Actually, @Site, it is possible that matter can be turned into energy. Scientists have discovered that all matter is theorized to be part actual matter, and part energy in the form of a wave. Once the object gets to the size of an electron, its starts to simulate aspects of waves and energy, such as diffraction, reflection, and other characteristics. Even light itself, which is thought to be the universal term of most known energy, is a photon, a part wave. Otherwise E=mc^2 wouldn't make any sense.
So logically, it can be hypothesized that once a piece of matter gets small enough, it will turn into wave energy. And that's the basis of many new theories such as string theory.
Also, the universe is commonly believed to have originated from the Big Bang, correct? Well, there was no matter from before the Big Bang, just energy. So if matter was believed to be created through energy, shouldn't the process be able to reverse. While it would take a lot of energy, the feat may be possible through high bursts of such energy, such as in supernovas and black holes.
@DE: Wouldn't you have to create another black hole and convert both to wormholes?
^ that is actually a fairly good explanation.
As for the wormholes yes if you would use for a gate way Im sure you'd need two. unless you found way to travel through the timestream in which case the same wormhole would have to exist in to different times occupying the same space. So in reality, only one gateway needed.