Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!bsa From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: FTL, imaginary mass, etc. Message-ID: <840@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 22:13:29 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.840 Posted: Mon Aug 19 22:13:29 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 02:49:11 EDT References: <2702@topaz.ARPA> <1622@orca.UUCP> <813@ncoast.UUCP> <436@utastro.UUCP> <154@iitcs.UUCP> Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: net.sf-lovers Organization: North Coast Xenix, Cleveland, OH Lines: 26 Expires: Quoted from <154@iitcs.UUCP> ["Re: FTL Travel"], by draughn@iitcs.UUCP (Mark Draughn)... +--------------- | 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. +--------------- 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 -- Brandon Allbery, Unix Consultant -- 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, OH 44131 decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa; ncoast!bsa@case.csnet; +1 216 524 1416; 74106,1032 -- -- "Well, we can't go dragging around the universe with a dormant Gravis on the console!" --Tegan, FRONTIOS