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What is a tachyon?

What is a tachyon? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (physics) A hypothetical particle that travels faster than the speed of light.
  2. (physics) A flaw in a physical theory that predicts the existence of tachyons or similar paradoxical results. Compare with ghost.
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Just as an ordinary particle such as an electron can exist only at speeds less than that of light, so a tachyon could exist only at speeds above that of light, at which point its mass would be real and positive.
The existence of the tachyon, though not experimentally established, appears consistent with the theory of relativity, which was originally thought to apply only to particles traveling at or less than the speed of light.
A vessel equipped of such a system of propulsion is completely out of touch with the real universe and is translated into tachyon hyperspace.
A tachyon is an imaginary or hypothetical particle.
The biggest problem with bosonic string theory is that the lowest energy state was a tachyon, or a particle mode with negative mass squared.

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