• Question: To all scientists, if we bult a spaceship that went faster than the speed of light, how long do you think it will take to travel to the planet pluto?

    Asked by aaotnas to Ben, Clare, Ezzy, Mario, Sam on 13 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Mario Campanelli

      Mario Campanelli answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      There is no way you can travel faster than light!
      however you can get close to it, at least in principle; at the speed of light it may take a few hours to reach the borders of the solar system, while for normal spacecrafts it takes years

    • Photo: Clare Burrage

      Clare Burrage answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      Recently I’ve been studying at new types of particles (which may or may not exist) which might be able to go faster than light. But even then it seems like the particles we are made of are not able to travel faster than light, so we are going to be forced to travel slowly (only 3 hundred million meters per second!) around our galaxy.

    • Photo: Elizabeth Pearson

      Elizabeth Pearson answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      It depends how fast the spaceship went. It’s unlikely we’ll ever be able to build one faster than the speed of light. If we could got at light speed it would still take over 5 hours to get there.

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