Noncausal Behavior of Classical Tachyons
- 15 June 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 1 (12) , 3224-3225
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.1.3224
Abstract
It is shown by example that causality violation can take place through the transmission of classical tachyons between three or more observers in such a way that each observer receives and emits only tachyons whose energies he measures to be positive. Such examples are not open to the ambiguities of interpretation proposed by Feinberg; they imply that a classical-particle description of tachyons is not physically viable.Keywords
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