What is the Speed of Light?

     The widely accepted number for the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. Not much is well undrstood about what happens when an object travels that fast. In our universe there is no other entity that can travel at or above the speed of light except for light itself. In reality, we cannot design modes of transportation fast enough to match the speed of light, or come close to it. 

     However, in Science Fiction, you can see this a lot. Many are starting to find that reality is even stranger than science fiction. One immediate example of this is that we are starting to find some extremely bizarre creatures on our own planet, creatures that surpriseingly don't look like they are even from here. 

     New species of animals, insects and even trees are popping up all over, most have already been here for a while, it's just that we haven't been able to search Earth's bizarre places to find them. Life is continuing to evolve, and if this is possible, what's to stop us from traveling across the stars, faster than the speed of light?