SPEED LIMIT

SPEED

Light is a portion of the range of electromagnetic energy propagating in discrete packets known as photons.

The Ignis Theory of Light

In the absence of interaction, each photon propagates in a perpetually repeating cycle through low mass/high energy and high mass/low energy phases, with individual photon mass and energy being immeasurably small.

At the beginning of each propagation cycle the intrinsic lowest mass of a photon is accelerated by the force exerted by its intrinsic maximum energy.

The initial [intrinsic] mass of a photon accumulates inertial mass under acceleration.

Inertial mass accumulation ceases when all photon energy is consumed when it is completely expressed as mass by its acceleration.

On cessation of acceleration the mass of a photon reverts to its intrinsic level, once again under the accelerating force of its full energy content, at the beginning of it's next cycle.

The high rate of acceleration of high energy photons produces a shorter repetition period than exhibited by low energy photons.

The repetition period of a photon is directly proportional to its energy, 

Each photon possesses an immeasurably small electric charge proportional to its instantaneous mass.

High energy photons exhibit higher mass and charge than low energy photons.

MATTER

In an early universe consisting initially of energy alone, positively and negatively charged photons interacted to cause the complex captured photon relationships that exist as matter. [Discussed elsewhere].

All particles of matter [atoms] are an intrinsically stable mass/charge relationship between the particular photons they comprise.

Speed Limitation

As an atom of matter within a space-ship, for example, is accelerated, each constituent photon comprising that matter gains additional energy and mass derived from the accelerating energy [chemical engine for instance].

If available, continued acceleration progressively increases the energy of any given photon, consequently progressively reducing its repetition period toward zero.

This zero/minimum repletion period would theoretically be attained first by the highest energy photons comprising the atom in question and progressively by lower energy associated photons if some catastrophic breakdown or unknown transition had not already occurred.

Beyond Light Speed

A source of acceleration beyond what is known in the universe would be necessary to accelerate matter past Light Speed if indeed matter could be seen as even existing at that point.

The mass/charge relationship established  within and allowing the separate existence of the atom in question could be seen to be catastrophically disrupted by the process previously discussed.

This appears likely to result in the rapid and total release of all of the energy aggregated to form the atom initially.