Do natural forces travel faster than light?

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talha

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Einstien says that nothing can travel faster than light cuz it's mass becomes infinity. But forces travel faster than light. How?
 
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Mattt3

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lightspeed is the fastest way to travel from point A to B that I know of; that is, unless you are talking about folding points A and B together.
 
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oldprof

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Not one of the messenger particles for the four fundamental forces travels faster than light. The graviton, photon, gluon, and W and Z messenger particles all travel at the speed of light. That is the nature of bosons, the messenger particles.

Your assertion is incorrect.

Al's theory says nothing with rest mass m can travel at the speed of light. But none of the bosons has rest mass. So they can, and do, travel at light speed... you know, like photons (duh).
 
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oldprof

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Not one of the messenger particles for the four fundamental forces travels faster than light. The graviton, photon, gluon, and W and Z messenger particles all travel at the speed of light. That is the nature of bosons, the messenger particles.

Your assertion is incorrect.

Al's theory says nothing with rest mass m can travel at the speed of light. But none of the bosons has rest mass. So they can, and do, travel at light speed... you know, like photons (duh).
 
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StN

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What forces are you referring to? The speed of light is a barrier. Scientists claim to have found objects that travel faster than light, but they are unable to slow below c, just as we can't accelerate past c.
 
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gintable

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In the modern study of quantum mechanics, no known force is modeled to have its messenger particle travel slower than the speed of light. I don't know who told you that "forces travel faster than light". If they did tell you that "forces act instantaneously", that is nothing more than a simplification so that you don't need to consider ten times as much mathematics.

Photons, light itself, form the messenger particle for electromagnetism and hence travel at the speed of light. As for the nuclear force types, they have their own names for force messenger particles called gluons, W bozons and Z bozons, and these particles either travel at the speed of light (or slower).

Gravity is still a toughie to model this way. There isn't any known evidence of the graviton, and gravity messenger particle. AND, Einstein has his space-time curvature theory of gravity being a curvature of space-time (analogous to heavy balls on a trampoline fabric), and gravity updates being a wave in this curved space-time.

In any case, what ever it is that updates gravitational information is not known to travel at any speed faster than the speed of light. If it did, it would create big problems for Physics.
 
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EmperorNortonI

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What natural forces travel faster than light?

The only thing I can think of that demonstrates faster-than-light travel would be the information exchanged between two entangled particles, which take on identical characteristics instantaneously, regardless of their distance from one another.
 
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