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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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Subject: FTL, imaginary mass, etc.
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Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 22:13:29 EDT
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Quoted from <154@iitcs.UUCP> ["Re: FTL Travel"], by draughn@iitcs.UUCP (Mark Draughn)...
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| school of thought, this may or may not make FTL travel impossible.)  I don't
| know what "imaginary mass" means in the real world, and I don't think anyone
| else knows either.
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There is one possibility:

Some quantum physicists feel that, since by quantum theory it IS possible for
particles to move backward in time (!) but we have never seemed to detect such,
these reverse-time particles are the one kind of unusual particle we DO see:
anti-particles.

Now, we all know that FTL implies traveling backwards in time...

Therefore, tachyons just might be identical to antimatter.  What kind of mass
does an antiparticle have?

--bsa
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