This reminds me of my high school science/engineering class, our professor taught us how to fit a 10 foot long car in a 9 foot long garage

I haven't dealt with relativity much in college at all really.

 

LOL, neither. But I can say that the car was approaching the speed of light.

 

because the object your speeding up has mass.
so through newtons laws of inertia the object wants to keep moving at the same speed that it's already moving and resist speed changes....your are thinking though because in a vacuum their is no drag so if your space shuttle is moving at 299 792 458 mlies a second it's going to keep going that fast. with no drag acting on something it will keep right on going it doesn't take energy to keep moving it takes energy to resist drag.

back to the speed of light. the problem is with speed your mass/inertia increases and as something with mass aproaches light speed the energy needed to accelerate it increases to an infinite amount. so it's impossible.. the only things that can move at the speed of light is light. neutrino's have no mass but they still are just a touch slower.

 

I didn't mean figuring out if it would fit in there crooked, I meant that when the car approaches the speed of light is actually shrinks in size relative to the stationary garage, hence for a fraction of a nanosecond while the car is going through the garage it is technically completely contained in the garage. But you'd need garage doors on both ends, and blah blah blah it isn't physically doable.