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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Do tachyons travel backwards through time?

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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Do tachyons exist?

Tachyons have never been found in experiments as real particles traveling through the vacuum, but we predict theoretically that tachyon-like objects exist as faster-than-light 'quasiparticles' moving through laser-like media.
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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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What is tachyon made of?

In the 1967 paper that coined the term, Gerald Feinberg proposed that tachyonic particles could be made from excitations of a quantum field with imaginary mass.
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Does time stop in a black hole?

Time does stop at the event horizon of a black hole, but only as seen by someone outside the black hole. This is because any physical signal will get infinitely redshifted at the event horizon, thus never reaching the outside observer. Someone falling into a black hole, however, would not see time stop.
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Can a wormhole exist?

Einstein's theory of general relativity mathematically predicts the existence of wormholes, but none have been discovered to date. A negative mass wormhole might be spotted by the way its gravity affects light that passes by.
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What survived a black hole?

Regardless of the explanation, we do know that it is highly unlikely that anyone entering a black hole would survive. Nothing escapes a black hole. Any trip into a black hole would be one way. The gravity is too strong and you could not go back in space and time to return home.
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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 do you 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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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 tachyons move forward in time?

That means a tachyon traveling back in time could always be interpreted as a tachyon moving forward in time because receiving a tachyon from the future always creates the same tachyon and sends it forwards in time.
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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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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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Can humans create wormholes?

To create a wormhole on Earth, we'd first need a black hole. This is problematic: creating a black hole just a centimetre across would require crushing a mass roughly equal to that of the Earth down to this tiny size. Plus, in the 1960s theorists showed that wormholes would be incredibly unstable.
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Are white holes real?

The short answer, unfortunately, is no. White holes are really just something scientists have imagined — they could exist, but we've never seen one, or even seen clues that one may exist. For now, they are an idea. To put it simply, you can imagine a white hole as being a black hole in reverse.
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What happens if two black holes collide?

It is possible for two black holes to collide. Once they come so close that they cannot escape each other's gravity, they will merge to become one bigger black hole. Such an event would be extremely violent. Even when simulating this event on powerful computers, we cannot fully understand it.
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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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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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How fast does Hawking radiation travel?

Hawking radiation is an incredibly slow process, where a black hole the mass of our Sun would take 1067 years to evaporate; the one at the Milky Way's center would require 1087 years, and the most massive ones in the Universe could take up to 10100 years!
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