Why can't we hitch a ride on a tachyon?

Science & Mathematics by Anonymous 2018-06-05 15:33:27

Social Science

10 answers

They travel faster than light and we can get everywhere in the universe really fast. C'mon scientists..

Anonymous

It would be great if we could catch one
Anonymous

If they do exist ;it is thought they would have a negative or imaginary mass (imaginary numbers)
Anonymous

If tachyons do exist and you could interact with them, you could send a message into the past. This violates causality.
Anonymous

You can't hitch a ride on something unless (1) it stops, which tachyons can't do, or (2) you match its speed, which we can't do because we're not made of tachyons.
Anonymous

Even if tachyons do exist, we could not interact with them.
Anonymous

Go to college, and figure that out. You'll be rich, famous, and get to travel the universe.
Anonymous

Because they don't exist. Nothing goes faster than light.
Anonymous

Well, they don't exist, and... that's only the first problem.
Anonymous

A tachyon is a hypothetical particle. Until confirmed it doesn't exist. And just how would you expect to 'hitch a ride' on one.
Anonymous

If you think it's so easy, why don't you do it and become immortalized in history?