Special & General Relativity Questions and Answers
Under what circumstances can a particle exceed the speed of light?
Under no conditions at all, except for fleeting moments in the quantum world where Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle allows it temporarily.
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All answers are provided by Dr. Sten Odenwald (Raytheon STX) for the NASA Astronomy Cafe, part of the NASA Education and Public Outreach program.