tachyons

Scalar waves • Propagate faster than Light speed (hence the name tachyons), except when transmitting scalar information on electromagnetic carrier waves. • effect is independent of distance and time. • effect is 3-5 times stronger than that of electromagnetic fields. • more fundamental than magnetic fields. • transmit information, not energy.

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In the 1960s and 1970s, physicists began to discuss the possibilities of particles travelling with a speed greater than light, the so-called tachyons, and as a consequence a similar debate about paradoxes involving backward causation arose among them.

Backward Causation Faye, Jan 2005

The theory also predicted the existence of certain particles called tachyons whose mass was not a real number, and which traveled faster than light.

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

The theory also predicted the existence of certain particles called tachyons whose mass was not a real number, and which traveled faster than light.

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

The theory also predicted the existence of certain particles called tachyons whose mass was not a real number, and which traveled faster than light.

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

Technically, relativity does allow some particles, known as tachyons, to go faster than light - in fact it forbids them to slow down to light speed.

NYT > Home Page By DENNIS OVERBYE 2011

They are going to be tossing tachyons down a fiber really fast.

How Fast Can Optical Networks Go? How About 170 Gbps? 2009

For particular stories, I've done targeted research: nanotechnology, cosmic strings, and supernovas for From a Changeling Star; chaos theory and the Voyager spacecraft findings about Neptune and Triton for Neptune Crossing; tachyons for The Infinity Link; stellar nurseries and stellar evolution for Sunborn.

Interview: Jeffrey A. Carver odysseyworkshop 2009

The only no-kidding science fiction time travel story that ranks highly with me is a novel, Gregory Benford's Timescape, an intense lab-procedural about escaping the inescapable, involving more tachyons than an entire season of Dr Who, but I never for a moment read it as fantasy, in fact, it's remained one of my all-time greats.

MIND MELD: The Tricky Trope of Time Travel 2009

You do know what tachyons are [well, theorised to be], right?

Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Eren’s Review Forum 2009