Can tachyons be created?

You can imagine that you might produce them in some exotic nuclear reaction. If they are charged, you could "see" them by detecting the Cherenkov light they produce as they speed away faster and faster. Such experiments have been done but, so far, no tachyons have been found.
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How can tachyons be made?

The tachyon is created on the "now" hypersurface of simultaneity and propagates towards the "earlier" hypersurface of simultaneity. It arrives at the earlier hypersurface that collects events from an earlier time before it was created. That means that the tachyon is traveling backwards in time.
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What if tachyons exist?

In Einstein's theory of special relativity, only massless particles like the photon travel at the speed of light; all other particles travel slower. The existence of tachyons can lead to “time travel” paradoxes.
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Is tachyon proved?

No verifiable experimental evidence for the existence of such particles has been found. Because a tachyon would always travel faster than light, it would not be possible to see it approaching.
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Can tachyons go back in time?

One of the fundamental postulates of special relativity is that the laws of physics should be the same in all non-accelerating reference frames. That means if tachyons can violate causality and move backward in time in one reference frame, it can do it in them all.
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Can tachyons escape a black hole?

Since the disturbance of a localized tachyon cannot spread faster than c, it therefore cannot escape the inside of a black hole's event horizon.
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Who proved tachyon is faster than light?

Tachyons were first introduced into physics by Gerald Feinberg, in his seminal paper "On the possibility of faster-than-light particles" [Phys. Rev. 159, 1089—1105 (1967)].
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Can God travel faster than light?

It seems, so far, that no object has been observed that can travel faster than the speed of light. This in itself does not say anything at all about God. It merely reinforces the knowledge that light travels very fast indeed.
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Is light faster than darkness?

Darkness travels at the speed of light. More accurately, darkness does not exist by itself as a unique physical entity, but is simply the absence of light. Any time you block out most of the light – for instance, by cupping your hands together – you get darkness.
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Can antimatter travel faster than light?

The only (anti)particle that can travel at the speed of light (but not faster than that) is light itself, namely photon field. Since photon is its own anti particle, we can conclude that the only anti-matter travelling at speed of light is 'light.
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What can escape a black hole?

Black holes are the blackest things in the universe. Because of their enormous, space-bending gravity, everything that falls into them is instantly ripped apart and lost. Scientists have never seen a black hole, because nothing, not even light, can escape them.
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Is a neutrino faster than light?

If it's true, it will mark the biggest discovery in physics in the past half-century: Elusive, nearly massless subatomic particles called neutrinos appear to travel just faster than light, a team of physicists in Europe reports.
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Is time Travelling possible?

Yes, time travel is indeed a real thing. But it's not quite what you've probably seen in the movies. Under certain conditions, it is possible to experience time passing at a different rate than 1 second per second. And there are important reasons why we need to understand this real-world form of time travel.
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How fast is tachyon speed?

Named after the theoretical particle that moves faster than light, the Tachyon Speed has a claimed top speed exceeding 240mph and has a 0-60mph figure of three seconds. Power comes from six direct-drive electric motors, which develop 1,250bhp and 4,949 Nm torque.
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Do tachyons have mass?

In physics, a tachyonic field, or simply tachyon, is a quantum field with an imaginary mass.
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Can future affect the past?

This idea that the future can influence the present, and that the present can influence the past, is known as retrocausality. It has been around for a while without ever catching on – and for good reason, because we never see effects happen before their causes in everyday life.
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How fast is Lightspeed?

Light from a stationary source travels at 300,000 km/sec (186,000 miles/sec).
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How fast is the speed of smell?

The time it takes to smell a chemical in the air is the time the chemical takes to travel in air to our nose, and for the nerve impulse to travel to the brain (milliseconds), so smells are almost instantaneous.
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How can we detect Tachyons?

Tachyons would still have mass-energy, so in principle, they could be detected through their gravitational field. Beyond that, they might be detectable if they interacted nongravitationally with other forms of matter.
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What are the 5 arguments for the existence of God?

Aquinas' Five Ways argued from the unmoved mover, first cause, necessary being, argument from degree, and the teleological argument.
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Can science and religion coexist?

Religion and science are like oil and water. They might co-exist, but they can never mix to produce a homogeneous medium. Religion and science are fundamentally incompatible.
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Is quantum entanglement faster than light?

For now, we know that the interaction between entangled quantum particles is faster than the speed of light. In fact, Chinese physicists have measured the speed. We know that quantum entanglement can be used to realize quantum teleportation experimentally.
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What is the tachyon device?

The tachyon prototype is a device developed by Mercury Labs that can absorb the Speed Force.
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How fast is a neutrino?

Neutrinos are subatomic particles that have almost no mass and can zip through entire planets as if they are not there. Being nearly massless, neutrinos should travel at nearly the speed of light, which is approximately 186,000 miles (299,338 kilometers) a second.
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