Re: lawless physics (fwd)

["Bob Sciamanda" <trebor@velocity.net>]

John wrote:
> . . .
> If someone on Earth determines that you are traveling at 10 c,
> someone else--moving in some very reasonable manner with a speed
> less than c wrt to Earth--will determine that you are traveling
> backward in time
> . . .
> John
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> A. John Mallinckrodt      http://www.intranet.csupomona.edu/~ajm


Whether a "tachyon" is possible and just how its kinematical properties
might yield to our measurements is a matter of speculation.  In 1960 I
wanted to do a thesis speculating that a tachyon with c <  v < oo   (v
being the "velocity parameter" in its momentum-energy 4-vector) would
mathematically be interpretable as traveling backward in time, and would
be measured by us as an anti particle traveling forward in time with 0 <
v < c.  This topic was rejected as unprofessionally weird.  Nowadays such
speculations are rampant!

-Bob

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