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Fastest moving object

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Many people believe light is the fastest moving object, yet it cannot be classified as an object. It does have both particle and wave like features yet those particles (photons) are massless, therefore not really an object.

Photons have mass when they are moving. And it is a particle so yes light photons at 299792458 m/s which is 3x 10^8 m/s are the fastest moving object

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Scientific claims were made recently that a quantum particle had been accelerated faster than light in a process known as "tunneling", but the experiment has not been further researched to the point of confirming that this is what happened. Anything that travels faster than light is, of course, not visible at its exact location, so measuring its speed would be a complex operation.

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Few airplanes travel at supersonic speeds, rockets travel at hypersonic speeds and light travels at the speed of a whopping 1,079,252,848.8 km/h about 873181.91650485436893203883495146 times faster than the speed of sound........speed of sound is 1,236 km/h

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Not unless the light is travelling through a very dense substance (e.g. Bose-Einstein condensate where the light is decelerated to a noticeable speed). If you are talking about through space, then no.

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There is no such particle.

If you're thinking of the great ballyhoo surrounding the announcement in 2011

from CERN that neutrinos had been observed moving faster than the speed of

light from Italy to Switzerland ... that whole episode was a great all-around fiasco

in science. The announcement was leaked to the press at a point in the research

process where results are simply not announced. The research had not yet been

reviewed by the others in the field who are always supposed to see it first. The

work was instantly recognized as being shoddy work, the announcement was

retracted and withdrawn (bet you didn't read about thatpart in the paper), and

the head of the project resigned.

There is still no evidence that neutrinos, or anything else, can move faster than light,

and lots of solid Physics saying that nothing can.

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  1. Photon
  2. neutrino
  3. electron

a theortical particle called a tachyon, moves faster than light.

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