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Rebecca Sohn

What would happen if you moved at the speed of light?

A short clip of lots of blue lines jetting past you like wind, portraying the speed of light as these light representations blur into contiguous lines.

In science fiction, people often find a way to move at the speed of light. But you might find yourself asking, could your body survive going so fast? What would happen to it?

First, let's assume that it is possible — though it is not — for a human to move at the speed of light, which is 299,792,458 meters per second (983,571,056 feet per second), or about 186,000 miles per second. There's no issue, per se, with a person moving at a very fast constant speed. Humans can't feel constant velocity, so you wouldn't even necessarily notice you were moving that fast. 

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