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more of a philosophical questions

normally if you are travelling at some speed and you bump into some object, you generally would get slowed down and the force from your acceleration would be transferred to the other object(not all of it obviously) however what would happen if you are travelling at the speed of light (or faster) and did the same thing? if you bumped into an object would you just go through it? or does it matter on the material of the object?

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Its a good thing you're asking such questions. At the age of 16, Einstein asked himself such questions. But he later realised such insights are redundant. Travelling at the speed of light, as Einstein enlightened us, is something impossible. But since we're looking at a hypothetical scenario, why not turn to Sci-Fi? "The Fastest Man Alive" or The Flash can instantaneously go through walls at a speed above that of sound and so for light, the same should occur. This is my take on it.