darkly dreaming

I have been journaling lately about the whole speed of light barrier to travel and Einstein relativity issue. I like to dabble with physics and find the philosophy of science to be fascinating. Or rather the epistemology of it. So here’s the basic problem that I have been wrestling with. To every observer, no matter how fast they are traveling, the speed of light is a constant 300,000 km/h. It is also impossible for one to accelerate to the speed of light, because doing so would require an infinite amount of energy, hence the impossibility. The hitch comes from the fact that no matter how fast I am going, the speed of light will always be 300,000 km/h faster.
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