[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

That's a myth. It was known that rifle bullets go faster than sound long before an aircraft did.

Yeah, and even if they did think that it wouldn't have been based on anything, where as now we've got good evidence to support the theory that you can't reach the speed of light. Even the tiniest particles can't be accelerated to the speed of light using particle accelerators and massive ammounts of power.

Is it possible? Perhaps, but we don't know how, and everything we've learned to date has told us that we can't, so it isn't exactly the same as not being able to go faster than the speed of sound.