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Its been longer than I care to admit since I've taken quantum mechanics but from what I remember, in layman's terms, an object becomes more and more massive as it approaches the speed of light. Thus, it would require an infinite amount of energy to actually attain the speed of light. When an object gets close to the speed of light you have to throw out classical Newtonian physics and start using quantum mechanics, like the Lorentz transform. Typical high school problem, they don't give enough info. I'm an electrical engineer and have taken bunches of advanced physics and calculus classes and every once in a while I can't figure out how to do some of the goofy problems my teenagers come home with. Teachers don't give enough info or give the proper assumptions to know how to get the answer the teacher wants to see.
Now, you could warp space in front of the spacecraft, making an intense gravitational field in front of the spaceship, which would cause the ship to be constantly sucked foreword. This is why the Star Ship Enterprise" has its warp engines positioned so far away from the hull of the ship (so that the whole ship can fit into the warped space).
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