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What is the mass of any kind of object that travels at the speed of light?


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Mass of any kind of object that travels at the speed of light:

  1. Changes in the size and mass of moving objects, as well as the apparent rate of time progression, are caused by high velocities.
  2. When an object reaches relativistic speeds, it becomes heavier and shortens or squashes along its axis of motion.
  3. As an object's speed approaches the speed of light, its mass increases indefinitely; we say it 'approaches infinity.' The spatial length approaches zero.
  4. The mass of an object becomes infinite as it approaches the speed of light.
  5. Material objects cannot reach the speed of light because they cannot have infinite masses, according to physicists.
  6. This is the speed of light barrier, which appears to limit the speed at which interstellar travel can take place.

Hence, the mass of any kind of object that travels at the speed of light becomes infinite.


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