2006-09-09 09:04:11 · 8 answers · asked by John G 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
To Mr Oak:There is nothing wrong with using hypothesis to illustrate a point.You stated that Tachyons are a hypothetical particle..True.Galileo,Einstein and all memorable scientists use hypothesis to further their point.I appreciate your candor however.
2006-09-09 09:12:37 · update #1
it is technicly possible
2006-09-09 09:07:46 · answer #1 · answered by justifier_mk 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
I think nothing is faster than a tachyon because tachyon is anything that can travel faster than light so any thing faster than a tachyon is a tachyon by the tachyon aren't 100 percent proven to be true .
2015-01-04 05:46:38 · answer #2 · answered by CYRUS 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There probably aren't any Tachyons.
But if there were, their speed would range from the speed of light up to infinite speed. The infinitely-fast Tachyons would have the lowest kinetic energy. As kinetic energy was added to them, they would slow down, and the most energetic Tachyons would be travelling just above the speed of light. This is one of the real problems with Tachyons. Suppose your Tachyon were charged. Then you could extract energy from it using a magnet. But extracting energy would cause it to speed up! And then you could extract even more energy from it! Tachyons just can't interact with normal matter without creating paradoxes. If we can't interact with them, then they don't exist for us.
So, one answer is that nothing can travel faster than a Tachyon because Tachyons can travel infinitely fast.
One could argue, however, that it is possible to travel faster than infinitely fast: if the particle goes backwards in time, it can "arrive" before it "leaves", which is very fast indeed. In that sense, a positron could be faster than a Tachyon, because a positron is equivalent to an electron that is moving backwards in time, and is therefore in some sense "faster than infinitely fast".
2006-09-09 09:33:44 · answer #3 · answered by cosmo 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Tachyons by definition are the class including everything traveling faster than the speed of light. Anything 'faster than Tachyons' would BE a Tachyon. Nothing can travel faster than itself. Therefore nothing can travel faster than Tachyons.
2006-09-09 09:46:57 · answer #4 · answered by STEVEN F 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tachyons are entirely theoretical, none have ever actually be observed. And in theory, no, there cannot be a particle faster than tachyons. The whole idea of tachyons is that they must gain energy to SLOW DOWN (tardyons have to gain energy to speed up), and at zero energy they travel infinitely fast. Obviously you can't get any faster than that.
2006-09-09 09:09:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Tachyons are simply a theory and they have not been proven to exist. Stop thinking of Star Trek as real.
2006-09-09 09:10:22 · answer #6 · answered by mdavhall1865 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Tachyons are purely hypothetical particles. Why are you trying to wrestle with Einstein and his theories.
Just give it up!
2006-09-09 09:09:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Way too much Star Trek, but lets go for the speed of light first before we worry about that
2006-09-09 09:07:20 · answer #8 · answered by sur2124 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋