Why can’t anything go faster than the speed of light? | The History of the Speed of Light Part II

Figuring out that the speed of light was the ultimate speed limit of the universe is part of the late 19th-century and early 20th-century history of Physics. This is part 2 of my “history of the speed of light” series.

Part 1 - How did we measure the speed of light? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7PU1WN9jWY

Michelson & Morley 1887 - http://www.ajsonline.org/content/s3-34/203/333.full.pdf

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