tachyon

noun

tachy·on ˈta-kē-ˌän

: a hypothetical particle held to travel faster than light

Examples of tachyon in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The introduction of supersymmetry also solved the nasty problem of tachyons by replacing those troublesome particles with supersymmetric partners, which was a nice flourish. —

Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2023 Unfortunately, this proto-string theory made incorrect predictions about the nature of the strong force and also had a variety of troublesome artifacts (like the existence of tachyons, particles that only traveled faster than light). —

Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2023 At first glance, tachyons wouldn’t cause much trouble. —

Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023 The tachyon particle has an intriguing time travel component. —

Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2023 Yes, there is a hypothetical particle, called the tachyon, that could travel back in time. —

Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023 This predicts that every particle has a superpartner and, by an extraordinary coincidence, the same condition actually eliminates the tachyon. —

Lorenzo Bianchi, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2018

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