Equation for Mass Moving Near Speed of Light: What Is It?

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Mass cannot reach the speed of light, as anything with mass requires infinite energy to do so. While a bus equipped with a hypothetical "speed of light engine" could accelerate, it would asymptotically approach the speed of light without ever reaching it. The energy required to accelerate an object increases with its mass, making higher speeds increasingly difficult to achieve. In its own frame, the object's rest mass and proper time remain constant regardless of its velocity. Established equations in special relativity, such as the Lorentz factor, describe these behaviors accurately.
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That calculates how mass a behaves as it nears the speed of light?

Let me rephrase, if we put a speed of light engine inside a school bus. At what speed would the bus top out at? Is there a certain speed that a weight can go? Or can't go faster than?

If so what is an equation that can explain this.
 
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..how mass a behaves as it nears the speed of light?

as an added note, the mass experience no change in behavior in its own frame; in other words, it rest mass remains fixed. In addition, the proper time of the mass ticks off at it's same fixed, steady, unchanging rate...

The bus will approach the speed of light asymptotically, never quite reaching reaching c, no matter how much energy is expended.
 
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