fastest things known to man

Technically when we say fastest tornado we are referring to the wind speed, not forward motion. With that said, the fastest wind speed on record was measured in an F5 tornado near Oklahoma City in 1999. The speeds exceeded 300 mph (484 km/h). On the Fujita scale this means it was barely scraping an F6 and no tornado has ever been classified as an F6.

Remember those military rocket sleds? Well they own the fastest land based speed record at mach 8.5. No humans were involved.

Calculating the speed of a spacecraft is a lot harder than simply pulling out your stopwatch. You have to account for the many possible frames of reference, two popular ones being the Earth and the Sun. While the fastest launch speed was achieved by New Horizons (currently en route to Pluto) at 36,000 mph (58,000 km/h), the fastest interstellar spacecraft is Voyager 1 which is moving away from the sun at 38,500 mph (62,000 km/h).

Those of you who have read our list of 25 Reasons Not To Upset Chuck Norris know that there is only 1 thing that can travel faster than the speed of light. According to special relativity, however, it requires infinite energy to achieve this, making it the official cosmic speed limit.

Although we just went on about how photons are the fastest particles in the universe (except for two very deadly roundhouse kick delivering mechanisms), scientists have been debating whether or not this is in fact true ever since Einstein came out with his theory. Although tachyons (hypothetical particles that move faster than light) have been proposed in the past, CERN has recently completed experiments where they found muon neutrinos that allegedly covered the distance between Geneva Switzerland and Gran Sasso, Italy 60 nanoseconds faster than light would have. As of yet, however, they have refrained from drawing conclusions from the experiment so the photon is still king.

The Insano is the highest water slide in the world at 41 meters high, a record listed in the Guinness Book of Records. Its height is equivalent to that of a 14-story building. As a consequence of its height and slope, this water slide provides an extremely rapid descent

In modern physics, light is regarded as the fastest thing in the universe, and its velocity in empty space as a fundamental constant of nature. The speed of light in a vacuum is presently defined to be exactly 299,792,458 m/s (about 186,282.397 miles per second). Thats basically the fastest thing the human species has ever experienced today. If you travel around the earths equator at the speed of light you will travel around the entire planet earth 7.4 times in approximately one second. While we have not been able to discover anything faster, there is speculation about superluminal particles

Tachyons are a putative class of particles which able to travel faster than the speed of light. Tachyons were first proposed by physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, and named by Gerald Feinberg. The word tachyon derives from the Greek tachus, meaning speedy. Tachyons have the strange properties that, when they lose energy, they gain speed. Consequently, when tachyons gain energy, they slow down. The slowest speed possible for tachyons is the speed of light.