Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site talcott.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!wjh12!talcott!gjk From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg J Kuperberg) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Re: Question on FTL and quantum mechanics Message-ID: <155@talcott.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 10:59:23 EST Article-I.D.: talcott.155 Posted: Sun Dec 2 10:59:23 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 5-Dec-84 01:30:06 EST References: <654@ames.UUCP> <6201@mcvax.UUCP> <274@mhuxm.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Harvard Lines: 17 > You ought to read up on tachyons which are particles moving faster > than light. They can't slow down in the same way that we can't speed > up to c. There is no known evidence of tachyons. Tachyons are dead. Some respected physicist published a paper on them once. There were many replies, to the effect of, "you made a mistake in your physics." The guy then said, "oops", and that was the end of it. The some non-physicists discovered the original article and published much literature about it. Sorry that I don't remember any of the names involved. --- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk "Eureka!" -Archimedes