Can Particles Like Light Be Accelerated in a Particle Accelerator?

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Is it possible to accelerate particles like light in some type of particle accelerator?
if it is possible why?
if it's not why not?
 

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Massless particles such as photons always travel at speed c.
 
Ok you say that but what is the reason they travel at c namely the constant of light?
Is there a reason?
Or not?
 

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