Are negative tachyons real?

Tachyons have never been found in experiments as real particles traveling through the vacuum, but we predict theoretically that tachyon-like objects exist as faster-than-light ‘quasiparticles’ moving through laser-like media.

Can an object have negative mass?

In theoretical physics, negative mass is a type of exotic matter whose mass is of opposite sign to the mass of normal matter, e.g. −1 kg. Currently, the closest known real representative of such exotic matter is a region of negative pressure density produced by the Casimir effect.

Why do tachyons have imaginary mass?

For a tachyonic field the second derivative is negative, meaning that the effective potential is at a local maximum rather than a local minimum. Therefore, this situation is unstable and the field will roll down the potential. Because a tachyon’s squared mass is negative, it formally has an imaginary mass.

Do tachyons have mass?

The reason tachyons don’t travel at the speed of light is because they have mass. Unlike other particles, however, they have a so-called “imaginary mass,” which is the reason they are supposed to go faster than light speed. Nothing has Mass.

How did Nora get negative tachyons?

When Nora West-Allen time-traveled to 2018, she used a device she found in the Flash Museum archive to harness negative tachyons, preventing her from entering the Speed Force, in order to appear unable to travel back to her time; Nora hoped this would allow her to stay in 2018 and spend time with her father.

Is antimatter negative mass?

Antimatter does not have negative mass. In our universe, there is no such thing as negative mass. Mass only comes in positive form. In contrast, electric charge can be positive or negative.

Do white holes have negative mass?

As I understand, white holes are an exact opposite of black holes, Black Holes are condensed of positive mass, where it is so heavy that it attracts everything into it. White holes are opposite, they repel everything that goes around it and give out ‘stuff’.

Can a tachyon escape a black hole?

Since the disturbance of a localized tachyon cannot spread faster than c, it therefore cannot escape the inside of a black hole’s event horizon.

What’s a tachyon particle?

tachyon, hypothetical subatomic particle whose velocity always exceeds that of light. The existence of the tachyon, though not experimentally established, appears consistent with the theory of relativity, which was originally thought to apply only to particles traveling at or less than the speed of light.