Faster than light particles potentially found

[KarlMarx]

Another class of particles, tachyons, have been postulated. Those particles have imaginary mass (not kidding), meaning that they cannot travel *slower* than the speed of light... the math is kind of spacy, just google imaginary numbers and you'll see what I mean....

maybe nuetrinos turn into tachyons under certain conditions. Then the tachyons are travelling near the speed of light but slightly faster then turn back into nuetrinos without the transition being detected... making it appear as if the nuetrinos are travelling slightly faster than the speed of light....

[Thunderknuckles]

If neutrinos have mass and are travelling faster than light, we've got all kinds of problems.

[KarlMarx]

If neutrinos have mass and are travelling faster than light, we've got all kinds of problems.

I wasn't suggesting that neutrinos are travelling faster than light. It is possible that they are temporarily converted to tachyons then almost immediately converted back to nuetrinos. Of course, that theory has problems. First there is the conservation of mass principal... how do you convert something with little or no mass into something that has imaginary mass and still conserve mass? The answer may be something like this... nuetrinos' mass is a complex number (having both real and imaginary components).... by some mechanism... the real component is transformed into the imaginary component for a slight instant.... the mass of the particle can be expressed as

square root of (a**2 + i*b**2)... where a is the real component of the mass and b is the imaginary component of the mass and i is the square root of -1....

by some mechanism the entire mass is converted into imaginary mass equal to i * square root (a**2 + b**2).... that may take care of the conservation of mass problem....

[Noir]

I wasn't suggesting that neutrinos are travelling faster than light. It is possible that they are temporarily converted to tachyons then almost immediately converted back to nuetrinos. Of course, that theory has problems. First there is the conservation of mass principal... how do you convert something with little or no mass into something that has imaginary mass and still conserve mass? The answer may be something like this... nuetrinos' mass is a complex number (having both real and imaginary components).... by some mechanism... the real component is transformed into the imaginary component for a slight instant.... the mass of the particle can be expressed as

square root of (a**2 + i*b**2)... where a is the real component of the mass and b is the imaginary component of the mass and i is the square root of -1....

by some mechanism the entire mass is converted into imaginary mass equal to i * square root (a**2 + b**2).... that may take care of the conservation of mass problem....

Even if that happens, the recomposition of mass means that the information (which is the mass) is traveling at speeds faster than light

[KarlMarx]

Even if that happens, the recomposition of mass means that the information (which is the mass) is traveling at speeds faster than light

Well, it was worth a try

[Noir]

Something i don;t quite understand about this.

If these particles are traveling faster than light, does that not mean that by definition they are traveling back in time?

and thus arriving sixty billionths of a second before they left the original starting chamber?

[KarlMarx]

Something i don;t quite understand about this.

If these particles are traveling faster than light, does that not mean that by definition they are traveling back in time?

and thus arriving sixty billionths of a second before they left the original starting chamber?

at speeds faster than light, time becomes imaginary, not negative.... I don't know what that the implications of imaginary time are...

[Noir]

Well, it was worth a try

Well given the wiriness of quantum mechanics you may be right, and wrong, and both lol.