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Originally Posted by ASU2003
Hopefully we will be in space, so there hopefully won't be any wave when in the vacuum of space. My concern would be how do you avoid all of the rocks, planets, stars, and black holes?
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Well, there WILL be some sort of wave in space. Sound waves exist in space, but there's not enough matter for them to bounce around to hear. If light waves stopped in space, they'd never get to Earth. Therefore, exceeding the speed of light WOULD, in fact, cause some distraction. In the event it's similar to a sonic boom, it would be caused by exceeding the speed of light reflecting from the forward facing areas of the vehicle.
As for the avoidance... who's to say that it would matter at that point? Of course we still don't have a firm grasp of how black holes work anyhow, but we also have no clue how lightspeed all plays out either. Maybe at the speed of light, passing though a rock just wouldn't be a big deal. *shrug* Since no matter, that we are aware of, has gone that fast, maybe matter gets converted to energy. There's just no telling...