Associations to the word «Tachyon»

Wiktionary

TACHYON, noun. (particle) A hypothetical particle that travels faster than the speed of light.
TACHYON, noun. (physics) A flaw in a physical theory that predicts the existence of tachyons or similar paradoxical results. Compare with ghost.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope