Is it possible to develop technology to travel at or above the speed of light?

Is it possible for us humans to develop this kind of technology in the amount of time we have left on earth (possibly couple billion years give or take). What would propel this type of craft. I just don't see it happening, then again who knows what technology will bring us. I guess if we could travel faster then light we would essentially be time traveling.Is it possible to develop technology to travel at or above the speed of light?
I believe that we will not only achieve it sometime in the next 10 billion years, I think we will

achieve it in within the next few hundred years.

Part of the solution to FTL travel is adjusting our definition of what it means to travel faster than c.

For example, while it may not be possible for objects possessing mass to reach c within spacetime,

it may be quite possible to move spacetime itself with no upper speed limit. Or to put it more precisely, to move a bubble of spacetime using a type of warp drive like that used in Star Trek.

The Alcubierre Drive is a theoretical version of a faster than light warp drive that has been well

thought out. While the technology is beyond us right now, the science behind it may just be the

type of thing you are looking for. Check it out:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_鈥?/a>



Looking at the question another way, if one traverses a large distance at velocities near c, then

time dilation becomes a factor. While time in the universe at large proceeds at a normal rate, shipboard time slows down significantly. Using a spacecraft traveling close to c, it would take

about 4 years to get to Proxima Centauri according to anyone back on Earth watching the calendar. But the people on board the spacecraft would only

experience a much shorter period of time. Depending on their speed, they could make the trip

in a matter of months (or weeks), shipboard time. Essentially covering 4 light years in only months. Their

effective velocity (time per unit distance) is thus many times greater than light. A technology

like that of the Bussard Ramjet has the potential to get to relativistic velocities using nothing

more than interstellar hydrogen as its fuel. And the best part is that the technology is almost

within our capability right now. Your might want to check this out as well:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ram鈥?/a>



And those are just a couple of potentially plausible ideas. There are plenty more crazy ideas.

In millions or billions more years, I'm absolutely certain that our descendants will laugh at us

for ever thinking that the speed of light was some kind of 'ultimate speed', just as we laugh at

people who once thought that humans would die if they ever traveled faster than 30 mph in a

car.Is it possible to develop technology to travel at or above the speed of light?
Any physicist will tell you that, as long as an object has discernible mass, it is impossible for it to travel at the speed of light, let alone faster than it.

Thus, it is (extremely) unlikely that humans will ever develop technology capable of delivering objects anywhere near the speed of light.