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From: bb... Bob Bell
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:00

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	For some reason I feel a need to add to this discussion.  I am
a computer science major, math major, and physics minor, so this
conversion hits close to home.
	About tachyons... that term just describes _theoretical_
particles travelling faster than the speed of light.  Under Eisteinian
physics, it can be shown that they must have a complex (imaginary)
mass (this is why they are theoretical -- we do not know what this
means).  As previously stated, there is a problem going past the speed
of light, because in Einsteins equations, number switch from real to
complex, and _at_ the speed of light, things become undefined.
HOWEVER, it could still be possible for tachyons to exist.  They would
have the speed of light as a lower boundary instead of an upper
boundary.  In other words, tachyons CANNOT travel SLOWER than the
speed of light.
	That is, if they exist...

(Sorry if this is a repeat message.  I don't think the others went
through)
          - Bob Bell
          bb...@voicenet.com

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From: bb...@voicenet.com (Bob Bell)
Subject: Re: Lightspeed constant...
Date: 1997/02/12
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