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From: hitlong@yahoo.com (gharnagel)
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Subject: Re: The most ridiculous science mistake in history.
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 02:09:06 +0000
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Richard Hachel wrote:
>
> Le 04/04/2024 à 16:48, hitlong@yahoo.com (gharnagel) a écrit :
>
> The notion of tachyon is an abstract, absurd notion.
> It's like asking a Pythagorean to draw a perfectly round square.

Actually, tachyons fit perfectly into SR's equation:

E = mc^2/sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2), when v > c the denominator is imaginary,
so the energy is real if m is imaginary, too.  The general energy
equation is E^2 - p^2c^2 = m^2c^4, so if E^ > p^2c^, then m^2 is
positive (normal matter), if E^2 - p^2c^2 = 0, then we have luxons
(photons, gravitons) and if E^2 - p^2c^2 < 0 we have tachyons.

Abstract?  Perhaps, although neutrinos seem to have tachyonic
properties.  Absurd?  Not so until proven wrong.

“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.”
– Miguel de Cervantes

 “The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to
extraordinary success.” -- Luc de Clapiers

“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible,
he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he
is very probably wrong.” -- Arthur C. Clarke

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
-- Albert Einstein

“Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's
in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.” – M. C. Escher

“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever
that it is not utterly absurd.” -- Bertrand Russell

So what may turn out to be absurd is those whose vociferously deny the
existence of tachyons.

> Today, human stupidity has been refined,

Hachelized

> But it remains the human knowledge of people who, in order to be 
> interesting, speak in Latin, or in English, to say anything.

> R.H. 


So why do you speak in French to an English language board, Hmmm?