Has it ever been proven that Tachyons are just Neutrinos super accelerated?

Question

I read this a while ago and never got to find out if this was the case.

Answer 1

Neutrinos can be detected by the presence of Cherenkov radiation - when a charged particle passes through a medium (such as water) at a speed faster than the speed of light in that medium (about 0.75c for water)

With the occurrence of supernova SN1987A, Cherenkov radiation was observed in neutrino detectors a few hours before any visible light was observed. SN1987A was believed to be about 170000 light years away. This would suggest that the neutrinos which had been detected were travelling about 0.0000002% faster then the speed of light, making them tachyons.

Although supernova models have shown that neutrinos can be emitted before visible light, it is uncertain if this could account for the observed time difference. Therefore, these neutrinos may or may not have been tachyons.

Answer 2

" Why might neutrinos be tachyons?................
The basis of the idea is that the neutrino mass can be measured using the detailed shape of the spectrum of electrons emitted in beta decay. Many of these measurements done by different groups were found to be consistent with a negative value for m2, or an imaginary mass. But, no experimenter has claimed that these values represent actual evidence for tachyons, because there are many other possible interpretations of the results, including systematic errors in the experiments."

The above is a quote from the website "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Tachyons" - source URL below

Answer 3

The Neutrino is just a Tachyon with a measurable property; the square of its mass.

For more candid information, read http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0604/0604003.pdf