Could Tachyons Exist ? Breaking The Speed of Light

Video Author’s:

Milan Sivakumar, M.D Candidate UT Southwestern’ 27

We’ve already examined wether other hypothetical particles like Gravitons could exist so in this video we examine the hypothetical tachyon and look at whether it can exist from a mathematical and physical perspective.

Previous Tachyon Videos:

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Songs:
Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

No.4 Piano Journey - Esther Abrami

Chapters:

0:00 Intro
1:00 Disclaimer
1:04 Imaginary Mass
2:01 Cherenkov Radiation
2:42 Causality
4:02 Superposition
4:39 Final thoughts and conclusion

Some images were derived and heavily modified from Veectzy

[maddmarkk]

I love your videos, and how you talk about particles no one else does

[joshwattson]

no matter how fast something travels doesnt that mean it just gets to point B after it was sent? why does something travelling FTL mean it goes back in time? sending a tachyon to tell someone that they sent a message means they sent a message and the tachyon still reached point B after it was sent, so there was no delay

[rocketman]

Individual 1 sent his signals at the same time.
Neither of them can be returned prior to them being sent.
No more than a mirror can reflect the image of your face prior to you standing in front of it.
I hope that clears things up!

[adamrussell]

Discussions of tachyons seem quite different from discussions of other undiscovered particles. Usually particle theory is based on physics that can predict the properties - mass, charge, spin, etc. Are they like counterparts to the basic particles we already know of such as proton, neutron, electron, quark, etc? Tachyon discussion never even touches on these very basic properties. Also the question of whether there is A tachyon particle or are there many different kinds of faster than light particles. Or is it even a particle at all?

[jamesrmorris]

time truly is another dimension just as valid as a spacial dimension

[Unmannedair]

Wait a minute... Imaginary mass... That would be a form of non interacting mass, but it could interact with other tachyons...
Why does the sound like a description of dark matter?

[WillfullyWondering]

You have correctly defined the dot product and cross product of two vectors. The dot product is a scalar, while the cross product is a vector. The dot product is calculated by multiplying the corresponding components of the vectors and adding the products together. The cross product is calculated by using the following formula:

```
(a2 * b3 - a3 * b2) * i - (a1 * b3 - a3 * b1) * j + (a1 * b2 - a2 * b1) * k
```

where a1, a2, and a3 are the components of vector A and b1, b2, and b3 are the components of vector B.

You have also correctly implemented the dot product and cross product functions in C++. The dot product function works by looping over the components of the vectors and multiplying the corresponding components together. The cross product function works by using the formula above to calculate the cross product of the vectors.

The output of your program is correct. The dot product of the vectors A and B is 33 and the cross product of the vectors A and B is (9, -9, 18).

#SteadyTrollin

[solapowsj]

Gravitational waves travel faster than light speed. So if a space warp detector in space detects gravitational waves and instantly sends radio warning to Earth, the receiving station built on a solid rock would have already crumbled - due to the gravitational wave. Causality has been 😮

[abefikre]

Everything you talk about here is about antimatter