Hello guys!!
My name is Jhenkar M S. I'm an engineering student at REVA UNIVERSITY, BENGALURU.
Im writing this blog to tell you about TACHYON. Ever heard of it?
Ya. Someone might have. But what most of the people don't know is, it is "A hypothetical faster than Light-particle".
Ya.you heard me right. It is faster than light...
But it is hypothetical...
Because a tachyon would always move faster than light, it would not be possible to see it approaching. After a tachyon has passed nearby, we would be able to see two images of it, appearing and departing in opposite directions.
Most physicists believe that faster-than-light particles cannot exist because they are not consistent with the known laws of physics. If such particles did exist, they could be used to build a tatachyonic antitelephone and send signals faster than light, which would lead to violations of causality.
The possibility of particles moving faster than light was first proposed by O. M. P. Bilaniuk, V. K. Deshpande, and E.C.G. Sudarshan in 1962, although the term they used for it was "meta-particle". In the 1967 paper that coined the term, Gerald Feinberg proposed that tachyonic particles could be quanta of a quantum field with imaginary mass. However, it was soon realized that excitations of such imaginary mass fields do not in fact propagate faster than light, and instead represent an instability known as tachyon condensation. Nevertheless, in modern physics the term "tachyon" often refers to imaginary mass fields rather than to faster-than-light particles. Such fields have come to play a significant role in modern physics.
Im writing this blog to tell you about TACHYON. Ever heard of it?
Ya. Someone might have. But what most of the people don't know is, it is "A hypothetical faster than Light-particle".
Ya.you heard me right. It is faster than light...
But it is hypothetical...
Most physicists believe that faster-than-light particles cannot exist because they are not consistent with the known laws of physics. If such particles did exist, they could be used to build a tatachyonic antitelephone and send signals faster than light, which would lead to violations of causality.
The possibility of particles moving faster than light was first proposed by O. M. P. Bilaniuk, V. K. Deshpande, and E.C.G. Sudarshan in 1962, although the term they used for it was "meta-particle". In the 1967 paper that coined the term, Gerald Feinberg proposed that tachyonic particles could be quanta of a quantum field with imaginary mass. However, it was soon realized that excitations of such imaginary mass fields do not in fact propagate faster than light, and instead represent an instability known as tachyon condensation. Nevertheless, in modern physics the term "tachyon" often refers to imaginary mass fields rather than to faster-than-light particles. Such fields have come to play a significant role in modern physics.
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