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Tachyons without paradoxes. [Absolute reference frame]

Journal Article · · Found. Phys.; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00708874· OSTI ID:6543460
Tachyon paradoxes, including causality paradoxes, have persisted within tachyon theories and left little hope for the existence of observable tachyons. A way is presented to solve the causality paradoxes, along with two other paradoxes, by the introduction of an absolute frame of reference in which a tachyon effect may never precede its cause. Relativity for ordinary matter is unaffected by this, even if the tachyons couple to ordinary particles. Violations of the principle of relativity due to the absolute frame would appear only in the case of free tachyons.
Research Organization:
Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge
OSTI ID:
6543460
Journal Information:
Found. Phys.; (United States), Journal Name: Found. Phys.; (United States) Vol. 7:7/8; ISSN FNDPA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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