Prisoner at War wrote: If it takes INFINITE ENERGY to actually reach the speed of light, well, how does light do it? Our current description isn't perfect. I don't think any future description will be perfect either. --- No essence. No permanence. No perfection.

In fact, many people would like to see light travel faster. At time, computer speed is becoming limited by the time it takes a signal to travel across a circuit board. Soon, just traveling across a chip may take too much time. Bill

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