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RE: For all those who lack imagination here you go this is for you :)))

in #science2 years ago

Tachyons, as many ideas in theoretical physics, are hypothetical. Therefore, for now they do not exist except in our minds. Observing them would, as I said in my previous comment, revolutionise physics.

However, we are not there (at least yet) :)

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but there are people working on it :))) "We are beginning an experiment at Berkeley to detect tachyon-like quasiparticles. There are strong scientific reasons to believe that such quasiparticles really exist, because Maxwell's equations, when coupled to inverted atomic media, lead inexorably to tachyon-like solutions.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-known-about-tachy/ well maybe sooner than we think :))) but who's counting lol

Beware, a tachyon-like object is different from a tachyon. It is an object that under specific circumstances behaves as if it would be a tachyon (it consists in an effective description). An elementary particle that is a tachyon is a different story. I had the latter in mind when answering.

To summarise, we compare apples with pears here (I know that from very far, an apple looks like a pear; they are however not the same ;) ).

guess it might be a while before we see something and hopefully well see warp drive in this lifetime ...
https://www.science.org/content/article/bernard-bigot-head-gigantic-iter-fusion-project-dies

https://www.science.org/content/article/bernard-bigot-head-gigantic-iter-fusion-project-dies

What?! I didn't know he passed away. I must admit I don't regularly follow what is going on around ITER (it is a bit far from what I do). Damned.... 72 was not very old...

guess it might be a while before we see something and hopefully well see warp drive in this lifetime ...

We will definitely see something (we already saw something). The "something" just needs to be defined.

Cheers!