"The implications are huge. Once we reach the speed of light time stops. Once we exceed the speed of light we travel backwards in time. Reminds me of the verse that says God is light. And God knows the beginning from the ending. How? He has already been there."
cameron222, I don't think you realise the lethal implications of what you're saying here, beliefs-wise. Why?
In "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier", when Kirk & co - including Spock's half-brother Sybok - had reached Galactic Centre (via the 'Great Barrier' protecting the fabled 'Sha-Ka-Ree', the base-world of Creation) meet God, he asks to be brought aboard the USS Enterprise. Whereupon Captain Kirk (basis of all awesomeness in the universe) asks him:
'What does God need with a starship?'
Thus the nub of my gist: If your 'God' is as 'omipotent' as he claims, then why can't he travel back in time to prevent Original Sin from happening in the first place: Adam & Eve, Eden, the 'Tree of Knowledge', the Talking Snake, and all that jazz, hmmmmmmm?!
Either he won't - or can't. (certainly in that film's scenario, if God is omnipresent, he wouldn't need a starship - which can travel at many times the speed of light - in the first place, ergo he was logically bested by Kirk. QED. Hell, Kirk & co. were able to travel back in time in the previous film, to correct the mistakes of humanity in the past - in an inferior Klingon Bird of Prey, no less!)
And if he can't, then he's not omnipotent. Thus he's not God. Therefore he's a contradiction to himself, ergo he doesn't exist. QED.
"God is light"
Light, eh? Which travels at 186,282 miles per second. And no more (after all, it's impossible for even a photon - with zero mass - which is what light in the visible band of the Electromagnetic Spectrum consists of, to exceed that speed). One word: Tachyons:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon
One more: Ions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_thruster
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/04/nasa-trumps-star-trek-ion-drive-live.html
The research in alternative propulsion systems (to replace solid/liquid fuelled rockets) is ongoing. I.e., Lasers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_propulsion
Pulse-laser propulsion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=LAdj6vpYppA
PROTIP: The science fiction of the past is the science fact of today. Quantum Computers already exist ('E.D.I.' in the film "Stealth" not looking so unlikely now, hmmmmmmm?!).
I love the smell of annihilated arguments in the morning. Smells like... victory.