Re: A discussion of 'Tachyons, the 4-momentum ...'

On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 12:36:27 +0000, Richard Hachel wrote:

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What must be understood in special relativity is that the photon IS
already a tachyon since it moves infinitely fast; since it IS an
instantaneous energy transaction in the hyperplane of simultaneity of
the receiver.

Monsieur Hachel, it pains me that I must disagree with you, for you
have conflated the frame of the photon (within which no red-blooded
human composed of tardyons can be at rest) with the frame in which
red-blooded humans CAN be at rest.  Photons are generally-believed
to experience no time, hence what you assert is true - in THAT frame.
However, in the frames which we poor, slow tardyon slugs lounge in
comfort, time does indeed pass.  Even we poor slugs measure the
speed of photons as 299796458 meters/second in vacuum, thus we are
painfully aware that light crawls along so slowly that true tachyons
(i.e., those particles that we poor humans would measure traveling
faster than those slow photons) MUST exist because the universe is
such a really, really absurdly BIG place.
I'm really, really sorry that you have deluded yourself.