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What if light Traveled Faster Than Light?

Theoretically, What would happen if we made Light Particales travel faster than the speed of light?Exaple: Turning on a lamp and the light Particles move faster than they should, What would we see or feel?

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1) It can't travel faster. 2) If light traveled faster than light, light would have to travel infinitely fast. It would get places instantly. The earth would be bombarded by all the light in the entire universe, not just the observable universe, the whole universe.
You don't seem to understand the nature of spacetime. There is no speed faster than the speed of light. The concept speed does not even make sense beyond c. As you approach the speed of light, time freezes to a stop, and space contracts to infinitely small. Since speed is just the distance traveled through space in a given time, you can't have a speed when there is no space and time. The phrase faster than the speed of light is inherently non-sensical.
The speed of light, C, is one of about twenty constants of nature. If it were not the value it is now, either faster or slower, the universe would not be the same as we know it now. Just how different that new universe might be is something I'm not sure anyone can calculate. But that it would be different is fairly certain. And I am fairly certain you would not exist in that revised universe where the speed of light is not C. For more on the constants of nature and how they establish the way our universe turned out, I suggest you read The Cosmic Landscape by L. Susskind.
Perhaps outside the universe, some forces are transmitted faster than the speed of light, but within our Universe, the speed of light is restricted to c.
What if light Traveled Faster Than Light? It would destroy you. Theoretically, What would happen if we made Light Particales travel faster than the speed of light? We cannot do this. No theory permits this. Exaple: Turning on a lamp and the light Particles move faster than they should, What would we see or feel? We'd be in a black hole, and the lamp would not be. So it would not hurt for very long.

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