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Tachyon
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Here you go
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Tachyon.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/tachyon
I just googled 'physics tachyon' and looked at the first couple of hits. I've also been slightly curious about the Tachyon. It's a hypothetical particle thought up in theoretical physics; I don't suppose they found it yet. The two sites I looked at seem to give good explanations. They even give you the origin of the name. In fact the latter article mentions light 'particles' as having zero rest mass. I think for me it cleared up some of the confusion about photons being 'massless particles' as if that were an oxymorn. Apparently:
Normal matter (Tardyons) have positive rest mass => Travels less than speed of light
Photons, Neutrinos (Luxons) have 0 rest mass => Always travel at speed of light
'Tachyons' have negative rest mass => Travel greater than speed of light
Of course I'm not an expert on the subject yet, so don't take my word for it. No doubt there's more to it than that.
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Tachyon.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/tachyon
I just googled 'physics tachyon' and looked at the first couple of hits. I've also been slightly curious about the Tachyon. It's a hypothetical particle thought up in theoretical physics; I don't suppose they found it yet. The two sites I looked at seem to give good explanations. They even give you the origin of the name. In fact the latter article mentions light 'particles' as having zero rest mass. I think for me it cleared up some of the confusion about photons being 'massless particles' as if that were an oxymorn. Apparently:
Normal matter (Tardyons) have positive rest mass => Travels less than speed of light
Photons, Neutrinos (Luxons) have 0 rest mass => Always travel at speed of light
'Tachyons' have negative rest mass => Travel greater than speed of light
Of course I'm not an expert on the subject yet, so don't take my word for it. No doubt there's more to it than that.
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thanks.
I remember my lecturer breifly mentioning something about an experiment in Australia or NZ (maybe) that claimed to have been expecting particles to arrive at a certian time and a split second befroe the expected time an anomoly apeared.
They tried to recreate this event but to no sucsess.
I remember my lecturer breifly mentioning something about an experiment in Australia or NZ (maybe) that claimed to have been expecting particles to arrive at a certian time and a split second befroe the expected time an anomoly apeared.
They tried to recreate this event but to no sucsess.
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