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Ankit (1727)

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A tachyon is any hypothetical particle that travels at faster-than-light speed.

However, tachyons are not entirely invisible. You can imagine that you might produce them in some exotic nuclear reaction. If they are charged, you could "see" them by detecting the Cherenkov light they produce as they speed away faster and faster. Such experiments have been done. So far, no tachyons have been found. Even neutral tachyons can scatter off normal matter with experimentally observable consequences. Again, no such tachyons have been found.

Only change is eternal. [img]http://www.quackit.com/pix/milford_sound/milford_sound_t.jpg[/img]

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