This is why nothing can actually get to the speed of light

As mass goes faster and faster the energy being put into making the object go faster gets converted to mass according to the famous equation E = mc2. When a proton speeds up in an accelerator its mass increases. As a  proton of mass 1 accelerates to a speed of 99.9997 the speed of light the mass ends up 430 times the mass of the original proton.

(Book – E=mc2: a biography of the worlds most famous equation : David Bodanis)

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