How do space ships fly faster than light?

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According to our current understanding of physics, it's not possible for anything to travel faster than the speed of light.

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This is because, as an object approaches the speed of light, its mass increases and it requires more and more energy to keep accelerating.

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At the speed of light, an object's mass would be infinite, and it would require an infinite amount of energy to continue accelerating.

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While some science fiction stories portray spaceships traveling faster than light using technologies like warp drives or hyperdrives, these are currently purely hypothetical and not based on any scientific evidence.

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In fact, scientists are still working to understand the fundamental laws of physics that govern the universe

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There's much we don't yet know about how the universe works. So for now, faster-than-light travel remains in the realm of science fiction.

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