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I have theoretically managed to break the speed of light, c, without gaining any noticeable mass. It's quite simple. If you scale down the whole Universe to the size of my bedroom, you can run from one wall to another (effectively billions and billions of light years) in the space of 3.142 seconds.

Scaling this back up to the Universal scale, I have covered the entire Universe in a matter of seconds, breaking the speed of light several millionfold. Why are all these scientists making such a big fuss about this faster-than-light travel business?

Incidentally, I did not encounter any alien races out there apart from a big spider on my lampshade, which when scaled back up to Universal standards took up the space of five whole galaxies.

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