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The statement that "everything travels at the speed of light" is not accurate. In fact, according to our current understanding of physics, only massless particles, such as photons (particles of light), travel at the speed of light in a vacuum.

For objects with mass, such as everyday objects and particles like electrons and protons, they cannot reach or exceed the speed of light. They are subject to the laws of special relativity, which states that the speed of light in a vacuum is an absolute constant and acts as an upper speed limit for anything with mass.

As an object with mass approaches the speed of light, its energy and momentum increase, and its mass appears to increase as well. This phenomenon is known as relativistic mass. As an object with mass accelerates, it requires more and more energy to approach the speed of light, and it becomes increasingly difficult to reach that speed. In fact, it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate an object with mass to exactly the speed of light.

Therefore, different objects and particles have different speeds depending on their mass and the amount of energy available to accelerate them. While particles with mass can approach the speed of light, they can never reach or exceed it.

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