Why can't an object travel at the speed of light ?

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As we know all particles have mass and thus they require energy to carry acceleration. So the closer you get a particle to the speed of light, the more energy is required to go faster. This happens as the particles become heavier as the velocity keeps on increasing.All in all, we can say that the faster you go, the heavier you get. So this is the reason behind the logic.

Also,
If an object moves with the speed of light, then the object would burn out leaving nothing.

It is impossible for a body to travel at the speed of light. Anything that consists of matter must travel at a speed less than that of speed of light.

If you were to travel at the speed of light, light would seem to be stationary in your frame which would imply that the magnetic and electric fields would not be moving causing each other to appear, hence, light would not actually exist.

If you were to travel at the speed of light your relativistic momentum would equal infinity which would violate the law of conservation of momentum.



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