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What would happen if the light exceeds the speed of light?

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Light can never go faster than light; that would imply a semantic contradiction, but things could go faster than the speed of light in a particular medium, through which light would travel slower than c. The equivalent of a sonic boom happens in this case, like when an airplane traveling through the medium of air exceeds the speed of sound in air. read more

As you get closer and closer to the speed of light, time gets slower and slower compared to stationary observers. So if you really need an answer to the original question, this means that if you actually hit the speed of light for real, time would stop entirely, which means that nothing could happen. read more

The speed of light poses a fundamental limit to the speed that an object can take, relative to objects nearby it. In fact, no object with any finite rest mass can move at the speed of light. That is why all the particles that move at the speed of light (e.g. photons) have zero rest mass. As a particle with mass approaches the speed of light, its energy increases and becomes infinite at the speed of light, which is the reason why it can never be accelerated to reach that speed. read more