i do not think so though i thought quarks may be

Superman???

Not that we know of.

Theoreticly, no, but there is so much about the universe and everything in it that "the jury is still out" on that one. Keep in mind that, at one time, it was concidered scientificly irrefutable that the earth was flat. Now, we typically view such a notion as foolishness.

Me when Im scared. I can outrun anything.

According to Einstein's theory of special relativity, published in 1905, nothing can exceed the speed of light. That speed, explained Einstein, is a fundamental constant of nature: It appears the same to all observers anywhere in space. The same theory says that objects gain mass as they speed up, and that speeding up requires energy. The more mass, the more energy is required. By the time an object reached the speed of light, Einstein calculated, its mass would be infinite, and so would the amount of energy required to increase its speed. To go beyond the infinite is impossible. One hundred years of testing have only reinforced what Einstein wrote, said Donald Schneider, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State. "There is no experiment that has contradicted special relativity. We have accelerated sub-atomic particles to well over 99 per cent of the speed of light, but not equal to or exceeding the speed of light. "Theoretically, strange things happen when you exceed the speed of light," Schneider added. Time travel, for one thing, and a breakdown in cause and effect. Schneider uses an example of hitting a target with a gun that shoots bullets faster than the speed of light. "Some observers would see the bullet hit the target before they saw the shooter fire the gun," he said. "Since one of the guiding principles of relativity is that all physical laws are the same to all observers, this violation of causality would be a big problem." Another oddity: tachyons. In 1967, Gerald Feinberg, a physicist at Columbia University, proposed the existence of these faster-than-light particles. In their mirror world above the light-speed barrier, tachyons would require infinite energy to slow down to the speed of light. Other concepts that have popped up include "wormholes" -- shortcuts through space-time that would permit point-to-point travel faster than light -- and "warp drives," a kind of bubble created in space in which relativity wouldn't apply. Although they have become staples of science fiction, tachyons, worm holes and warp drives remain speculation, and many physicists dismiss their significance. There is, however, at least one real-world example of superluminal (i.e., faster-than-light) travel. It occurs when light passes through water. In this dense medium, Schneider explained, light is slowed to three-fourths of its speed in a vacuum. In a nuclear reactor, charged particles flying off the radioactive rods through the water they are submerged in exceed this reduced speed. Because these particles contain an electric charge, they emit energy, called Cherenkov radiation. Any particles they bump into become radioactive, giving the water a characteristic blue glow. "It's not at all exotic," Schneider said. "Every time you look at the water in a nuclear reactor, the bluish glow you see is radiation produced by charged particles moving faster than the speed of light in the water." Still, slowing light down in order to beat it is cheating, Schneider conceded. And although he's not closing his mind to the possibility that relativity will one day be amended, for now, he said, Einstein's theory is the final word. http://www.physorg.com/news12084.html

Yes, the speed some people jump to the wrong conclusions on AB :)

I believe there are things faster than the speed of light. The only problem is what ever is faster than light, cannot be seen in light, because it would be too fast for light. Perhaps the central vortex of a black hole, hence the black.....Just because you can't see something, doesn't mean it's not there, ask a blind person. Same reasoning.

No. If there is science has yet to find it.

Don't know for sure, but there are times when I'd swear my three year old son is faster! Course, he also crashes faster than a collapsing star...

Yes. A bad burrito going through my system......

Electric signals can be transmitted at least four times faster than the speed of light using only basic equipment that would be found in virtually any college science department. Scientists have sent light signals at faster-than-light speeds over the distances of a few metres for the last two decades - but only with the aid of complicated, expensive equipment. Now physicists at Middle Tennessee State University have broken that speed limit over distances of nearly 120 metres, using off-the-shelf equipment costing just $500. Jeremy Munday and Bill Robertson made a 120-metre-long cable by alternating six- to eight-metre-long lengths of two different kinds of coaxial cable, each with a different electrical impedance. They hooked this hybrid cable up to two signal generators, one of which broadcast a fast wave, the other a slow one. The waves interfere with each other to produce electric pulses, which can be watched using an oscilloscope. Any pulse, whether electrical, light or sound, can be imagined as a group of tiny intermingled waves. The energy of this "group pulse" rises and falls over space, with a peak in the middle. The different electrical resistances in the hybrid cable cause the waves in the pulse's rear to reflect off each other, accelerating the pulse's peak forward. Four billion km/h By using the oscilloscope to trace the pulse's strength and speed, the researchers confirmed they sent the signal's peak tunnelling through the cable at more than four billion kilometres per hour. "It really is basement science," Robertson said. The apparatus is so simple that Robertson once assembled the setup from scratch in 40 minutes. While the peak moves faster than light speed, the total energy of the pulse does not. This means Einstein's relativity is preserved, so do not expect super-fast starships or time machines anytime soon. Signals also get weaker and more distorted the faster they go, so in theory no useful information can get transmitted at faster-than-light speeds, though Robertson hopes his students and others can now rigorously and cheaply test those ideas. Physicist Alain Hache at the University of Moncton in Canada adds that it may be possible to use this reflection technique to boost electrical signal speeds in computers and telecommunications grids by more than 50 per cent. Electrical signals usually travel at about two-thirds of light speed in wires. Hache says it may be possible to send unsable electrical signals to near light speed. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2796

gossip?

Hmm..darkness travels faster than light.. think about this: imagine a very tall pole with a light source near the top of it.. now that light source creates a shadow of the pole on the ground.. theoretically, if the light source moves around the top of the pole, the shadow will move naturally a lot faster (covering more distance). Let's say that for each meter the light source moves, the poles shadow at the tip, moves 60 meters..therefore, if the light source reaches a velocity of one 60th of the speed of light, then the poles shadow would already be travelling at the speed of light.. any faster, and the shadows speed surpasses the speed of light!? regards, Mango.

The speed of thought.

things which are purely theoretical. As they move faster than light, we can't really see them (as all our vision is based on light, and the speed that it travels.) Read up on Tachyons.

the anpha jump ( check if my spelling is correct )

Mind thinks faster!If possible ,mind will put you on Moon, with in a fraction!

Nothing.

Technically nothing can break the "universal constant speed of light" however, there is a way around it if your willing to travel on a wave. A ripple really, but I forgot what it's called. It starts with a "t" but I'll have to return with that additional informaiotn. It's quite the clever loop hole really, surpassing Eienstien's constant by riding the longer arm of a faster (apparent) moving ripple....to be cont.

bad news

Nothing.

Stupidity.

Currently nothing, but I wouldn't hold on to that forever, new science sometimes shocks people.

Aren't there some subatomic particle pairs which, when one is affected (eg, spin reversed or something???), its partner is instantaneously affected, too?

There's a bunch in Wikipedia about this: . Faster-than-light - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light . Faster-than-light travel - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Faster-than-light_travel . Faster-than-light communication - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Faster-than-light_communication

Superman! According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, if anything did travel faster than the speed of light it would cease to exist. Allow me to add to that.....it would cease to exist 'in this dimension'.....anyway Einstein's theory is just a theory and Superman's speed is fact. :)

My ex brother-in-law to his monthly entitlement cheques! ;-)

Lies from a politicians lips!!!!!!

me

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” - Terry Pratchett

sound

Bundles of particles.

from what i know, nothing?

Nothing in this physical dimension. Now, the spiritual dimension isn't limited by normal relativity, so whatever energy occurs in that world could theoretically travel instantaneously.

Nothing. Anything that would surpass the speed of light would exponentially start to gain mass and would bend all physics laws currently know to man.

superman travels faster than light. LOL!!!

nothing

the smell of my farts

Light travels faster than light http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation

im on my 4th year h.s stage now and we were discussing about light and all related lectures about it. as far as i know, darkness is just an absence of light, it doesn't move nor travel. so in other words, light's the fastest particle ever exist.

Fear . . . not scientific of course. ;)

Human mind's imagination.

Gossip.

The imagination of scientist-wannabees.

thoughts

Nothing does.

Warp Drive.

It is a scentific fact that light is faster then anything else on earth. Personally, I believe that is true but I could be wrong.

superman

An Ethiopian chicken before the crack of dawn?

The aroma of a fart in a confined space.

Chuck Norris

your mum

Nothing that we know of

my lunch hour

hi,thats easy,my beighbor barbaras mouth!!!!!!!!!

sex with my ex husband

my boyfriend changing his mind

sleep.

Light being pulled into a black hole

me when i want to do a weewee ha!

Bad news. And no we don't want your ruddy spaceship here! It's not welcome!

me when i'm late for work

laser beams

Rumors :)

A poorly digested meal. Time for the Pepto Bismol!

my thoughts....

Lou Dobbs in Mexico

The darkness just ahead of it yo...;)

Farts. They travel 100x faster than light. My 2 cents.

The expansion of space/time. The National Debt of the U.S. And Republican's Ego.

The speed of thought and astral travel.

Tachyons.

Our lives ... time just flies by!!!

A bone stock Honda Civic HF

my salary :p

A few things can, vaguely. As has been pointed out somewhere else - Cherenkov radiation will be emitted when a particle or wave travels through a medium faster than the speed of light in the medium (e.g. before the entity interacts with the medium), and as soon as it does interact with it, it will slow down, and emit radiation - Cherenkov radiation. This gives nuclear powerplants their distinctive blue glow, and is one of the important methods in Neutrino Detection. Elsewhere, the tachyon is a theorized particle of something that will exceed the speed of light. Indeed there is nothing that prevents v>c particles existing, as long as they have always existed in that state - and are not accelerated to it from below the speed of light. In other parts, you can (easily) have phase velocities of a wave exceed (greatly) the speed of light, I believe experimentally it's gone to the region of 800 times more (though, I do not know off hand without looking up the details). However, no information is transmitted at this speed, and relativity and causality are still intact.

On the weekends, in the mornings...my kids - down the stairs to play videogames. Now, why can't I get them up like that go get ready for school?

Customers that need flat repairs.

Has anyone mentioned gossip yet?

My ex when the drugs would hit the front door threshold:(

Chuck Norris

imaginary or hypothetical particles like Tachyons ... LoLz

Chuck Norris' roundhouse kick

Kate Hudson and Drew Barrymore

Though only possible in theory right now, a vessel employing the Alcubierre metric would be able to exceed the speed of light in some senses. A bit of a general overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

Thought travels faster than light according to Einstein

The transfer of kinetic energy from a cue ball striking the lead ball in a tightly racked set to the outer balls sending them into the pockets.

Ali's left hook.

God

My mind.

Dark?

Heidi and Spencers careers

Rumour. *smiles*

According to Quantum Mechanics: Quantum Entanglement. Which has been described as "spooky action at a distance". or Gossip. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement

Spirit and thought

Barney on ice skates with a group of kids chasing him.

Rumours, gossip, and lies. :(

The rate at which the government finds new things to tax.