Ultimate speed limit....?....Nah, Einstein is WRONG.

The speed of light has often been described as "The Ultimate Speed Limit", a 'barrier' because people have always been informed of this.

And, without knowing why, they have been imbibed with the belief that this is the actual scenario, without having been informed as to why this statement has been made public as if it is fact. Conesquently, they have likened it to the 'sound barrier', a totally different thing.

Hence the plethora of people (especially in the physics rooms) who believe that Einstein 'was wrong', because just like sound, they believe that the 'light barrier' can be breached.

Wrong or right, this is what happens: Nothing can travel faster than light, and what is more, there is no way to even approach those speeds.

Whatever people believe or led to believe, be it good-intentioned or not, the truth is that the speed of light is completely unnattainable. But how do I explain this in normal terms?

I deal in this stuff almost every day, so watch this space as to how it can (or cannot be done).

Most of the boffins in the physics rooms are completely unware that sound and light travel in a different way. In fact, light travels in a totally inexplicable way, to them at least, or it would if they had studied rudimentary wave theory.