[King Prout]

what the HELL?
damned html...
1. dunno
2. dunno
3. dunno. also, I thought the conclusion was that nothing can accelerate from < C to >/=C

[RightWhale]

The special theory describes how things will look, and looking means that we use light to make our measurements. This does not necessarily mean that things cannot move faster than the speed of light. In string theory there are tachyons. The math is consistent, but who said the universe obeys the axioms of math? There are a lot of things in math that have no immediate application to the world of matter. Even something cut and dry as mechanics does not a priori claim to predict how things will behave, but rather it is the other way around: we see how things behave and then adjust our mechanics to fit what we observe.