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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Is there any evidence for tachyons?

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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Are tachyons theoretical?

Tachyons are one of the most interesting elements arising from Einstein's theory of special relativity. The 1905 theory is based on two postulates, nothing with mass moves faster than the speed of light (c), and physical laws remain the same in all non-inertial reference frames.
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Can tachyons go back in time?

and they slow down. For present purposes, the interesting fact is a curious property: for some observers tachyons travel backwards in time. With the spacetime representation of the relativity of simultaneity, it is now easy to see how this comes about.
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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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Can tachyons be harnessed?

You can see how in each case tachyons are harnessed for their incomparable speed, exploratory abilities, enhanced power, and increased energy.
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What is a tachyon bomb?

Tachyons are created in the matter accelerator. One is then fired dows a vacuum tube and hits an antimatter target. On impact, there is a vast explosion that can expose a planet's mantle. The effects are similar to a normal antimatter bomb, except that the tachyon bomb creates a penetrating stream of tachyons. #
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Does Hawking radiation travel faster than light?

(Although nothing can travel through space faster than light, space itself can infall at any speed.) Once matter is inside the event horizon, all of the matter inside falls inexorably into a gravitational singularity, a place of infinite curvature and zero size, leaving behind a warped spacetime devoid of any matter.
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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 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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Is a neutrino faster than light?

Neutrinos Travel Faster Than Light, According to One Experiment | Science | AAAS.
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Can we detect neutrinos?

Neutrinos are tiny, subatomic particles. Billions of them pass through us every second—mostly coming from our sun. But unlike the sunlight we can easily see, neutrinos are very hard to detect. To “see” them, we have to build really big detectors and block out signals from any other particles.
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Can negative mass exist?

As interesting as this sounds, negative mass does not exist, so heavier objects always fall down. Second, the lack of negative mass means that gravitational fields can never be shielded, blocked, or canceled. In contrast, electric charge comes in both positive and negative varieties.
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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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Can a wormhole exist?

In the early days of research on black holes, before they even had that name, physicists did not yet know if these bizarre objects existed in the real world.
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Are black holes hot?

Black holes are freezing cold on the inside, but incredibly hot just outside. The internal temperature of a black hole with the mass of our Sun is around one-millionth of a degree above absolute zero.
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Are black holes black bodies?

Yes, black holes are supposedly near-perfect black bodies. They emit thermal radiation called Hawking radiation, which, however, does not originate from beyond the event horizon, but is a consequence of the interaction of the strong gravitational field outside the horizon with the vacuum.
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What are negative tachyons?

Negative tachyons are particles that can increase a speedster's speed by siphoning positive tachyons from the Speed Force.
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Is there any particle faster than light?

An Italian experiment has unveiled evidence that fundamental particles known as neutrinos can travel faster than light.
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Is Tachyon VPN free?

Yes, this does hold for some free (and unethical) VPN apps, which don't charge users directly but make up for that by selling off users' browsing data to third parties. Using such VPN apps might be riskier than not using any VPN connection at all.
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Who theorized tachyons?

Tachyon is the name given to the supposed "fast particle" which would move with v > c. 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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What is a tachyon prototype?

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