Definition of "tachyons" []

• Plural form of tachyon. (noun)

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