Tachyon – A Non-Existent Particle

A. Sfarti
Additional contact information
A. Sfarti: UC Berkeley, USA

European Journal of Applied Physics, 2021, vol. 3, issue 2, 1-2

Abstract: In a 1967 paper [1], G. Feinberg conjectured about the possibility of “faster-than-light” particles. In the current note we prove his conjecture to be false by showing that he missed several key counter-arguments to their existence. We explain why the existence of tachyons contradicts both relativistic kinematics and relativistic dynamics. Our paper is divided in two sections: the kinematic counter-arguments and the dynamics counter-arguments.

Keywords: tachyon; relativistic speed composition; relativistic total energy; causality violation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://eu-opensci.org/index.php/ejphysics/article/view/11056 Abstract page (text/html)
https://eu-opensci.org/index.php/ejphysics/article/download/11056/1968 Full text (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:epw:physic:v:3:y:2021:i:2:id:11056

DOI: 10.24018/ejphysics.2021.3.2.56

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in European Journal of Applied Physics from European Open Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Support Team ().