Accelerating particles to speeds infinitesimally close to the speed of

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2022-04-07

Accelerating particles to speeds infinitesimally close to the speed of light?

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Beginner2022-04-08Added 14 answers

By special relativity, the energy needed to accelerate a particle (with mass) grow super-quadratically when the speed is close to c, and is when it is c.
E = γ m c 2 = m c 2 1 ( “percent of speed of light” ) 2
Since you can't supply infinite energy to the particle, it is not possible to get to 100 %   c.

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