--- In TheAoISCT@yahoogroups.com, Jonesalonzo1@... wrote:
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> What are the most likely sources of possible tachyons?? We would
likely need a source so that we can use them in an experiment in an
effort to prove their existence.? Once we have them we can devise an
apparatus to manipulate them into causing an effect that won't be
explainable by any other means.? To do that though, we not only need
a source but also we will need to know their properties,
specifically, their speed... how many times the speed of light is
it?? and is it a constant speed?? We need to know this so that we can
create the apparatus to manipulate them.? It should be pretty
simple.? It could be based on a version of early atom smashers (so
that we can keep the cost of creating it cheap)... maybe a simple
linear accelerator?? It would have to be redesigned to work at the
faster than light speeds.? The problem here is I think the tachyons
may have to be charged for them to work in the machine though.
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Reply from H.Kurt Richter:
Sorry it took so long for me to respond to this post, but things have
been up in the air for me this whole year.

Anyway, one source for tachyons could be quark interaction activities
called "flavordynamics". It has long been known that flavor is not
conserved in weak interactions between quarks. This fact allows for
extremely small amounts of energy to be released from all weakly
interacting quarks; consistent with experimental data. And since
infinite speed is the tachyon's zero energy level, it is reasonable
to assert that very high speed tachyons (not necessarily inifinte
speed, but say "near infinite") could be produced quite easily in
these types of interactions.

As for detecting the tachyons, I am afraid technonoloy will have to
catch up to theory before that can happen, because we remain bound up
with the electromagnetic spectrum, per-force, as you noted (with
respect to possible tachyon charge), and cannot seem to find ways to
detect things that do not somehow disturb or otherwise affect an
electric, magnetic, or electromagnetic field, or which causes some
detectable change in materials at macroscopic distance scales. My
contention is; with the implication from M-Thoery, that our universe
is simply one of millions, in a multi-verse of alternate-dimensional
universes, attempts at detecting (not just confirming the existence
of) alternate dimensional energies will enable us to understand how
to detect tachyons -- if tachyons are not indeed the first
alternate-dimensional objects to be confirmed (which is, in my
opinion, the most likely scenario). Perhaps the new LHC will provide
some directions for researchers to take, in that respect.

The problem with speculating that there are charged tachyons is the
assumption that it is ordinary charge, like that on an electron or a
proton. But that is not a logical assumption. Rather, the charge on
a tachyon would more likely be a superluminal analog of our version
of charge, and would therefore be just as undetectable as the
tachyon's mass, energy, momentum, etc. Consequently, a breakthrough
in detecting an alternate-dimensional type of charge is needed, if we
want to relate tachyonic charge to bradyonic charge.


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