Is it possible to exceed the speed of light?

If you have long been interested in the question whether it is possible to exceed the speed of light, we are ready to answer it. Spoiler: disperse his body to such an extent not work.

The general answer to this question would be: yes, you can exceed the speed of light. And it will make our universe itself. To understand this process is quite complicated, so we'll start from the beginning. Literally - from the moment of the Big Bang.

About 14 billion years ago there was a Big Bang. As a result, throughout the universe began to move particles of matter - the explosive force of the galaxy throws in all directions. And it continues to this day. Judge it can be on several grounds. The main of them - the presence of the Doppler effect. In other words, today we catch the waves of light from other galaxies as you can hear the sound of the siren is moving away an ambulance, which passes by.

For example, consider a cluster of galaxies called Hydra. It is located at a distance of about three billion light-years away. We know this because astronomers have studied the spectrum of light waves coming from Hydra. If we expand it through a prism, we can see how much the light waves are different from the usual. Typically, the spectrum consists of red, green, blue and purple colors. But due to the fact that light waves have to go a great distance, to stretch and to overcome interference, we can observe the phenomenon of "red shift".

Accumulation of Hydra is not unique in this "red shift." Many other distant galaxies show the same effect. And it will only increase - in fact from the time of the Big Bang, our universe does not stop moving, and continues to expand.

There is no limit to how fast the universe is expanding. Therefore, Einstein's theory that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, yet true. The only thing that is not galaxies move through space, and the space itself expands and stretches. Some of the clusters are moving away from us so quickly and at such a great distance that the light from them will never reach the Earth.

Imagine that you run a marathon. And suddenly, the road itself starts to stretch and grow, and so quickly that the end of the race it is not seen.

Based on materials Popular Science.