Let me start by saying that I totally agree with the fact that we will never break the speed of light but what about the number? 186,000mps, it's just a number after all, isn't it?
I know that light seems to move at the same speed for a person whether they are at a standstill or traveling at 99.9999% of C. I figured that this must be the basis for Einstien's theory that you would need an infinite ammount of energy to travel faster than light and that the mass of said object would become infinite. Or basically (as I like to put it), we will never catch up to and/or overtake a packet of light.
Now, try to bare with me (simple mind here :? ), as we accelerate in our "space ship" the speed of light shoud remain the same for us, i.e. it should continue to move away from us at C. As we approach that magical number (186,000mps) should the speed of light not remain the same? What I'm trying to ask is that even though we are traveling at 185,999.99mps, we should still precieve light to be moving at C even though we are almost at C? (I'll try to clear that up a bit if you think that I'm crazy and taking rubbish

).
If light is always going to be traveling at 186,000mps, nomatter what the curcumstances, then what is stopping us from going beyond (appart from current technology) 186,000mps? If we were to reach 186,000mps then I think that we would not be (technically) breaking C at all as light, from the ships crew point of view, would remain the same as if they were stationary.
I'll do my best to to better explain where I'm going with this but if you feel the need to brand me a heretic and burn me at the stake then I will accept

.