LB said: We are stuck in our solar system. Even at light speed, the closest star systems are decades away. The closest systems with planets are hundreds of years away. The possibility of finding intelligent life or a habitable planet is slim with this kind of time restraint. If there is no "universal speed limit" it opens the door to other possibilities. I have never understood why, in open space, an object with renewable energy, couldn't constantly gain speed beyond light speed. It might take a long time, but acceleration causes the problems, not the actual speed. I also never took physics, just read a lot of Carl Sagan and Discovery magazine.
Atma Weapon said: For this result to be true, either Einstein was wrong, or the particles never did go faster than light, but took a short cut through extra unseen dimension(s) of space.