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Why cant your rocket could never reach the speed of light?

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User Clweeks
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Answer:

The length of the object would shrink to zero which is not possible.

Step-by-step explanation:

A rocket or any body cannot reach the speed of light because according to theory of relativity the and the Lorentz factor the length of the object would shrink to zero and the time dilation for that body would be infinite.

The Lorentz factor is given as:


\gamma=\frac{1}{\sqrt{(v^2)/(c^2) } }

where:

v = speed of the moving object

c = speed of light

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