On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 12:17:10PM +0300, Georgi Guninski wrote:

This confuses me: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tachyonic_field&oldid=730595004 | A tachyonic field, or simply tachyon, is a quantum field with an imaginary mass.

"imaginary" links to imaginary number, using i^2= -1.

So far, as I read it, this means the mass can be say 1i grams.

Wow. That's very cool. But they can't detect them. But they must exist? If so, that's really wild. Sounds like physicist are on some serious psycho visual stimulants.

Later comes the confusion, wiki explains "imaginary" as real (in the math sense).

| The "imaginary mass" really means that the system becomes unstable.

Sounds like a different meaning for the term 'imaginary'... and that Wikipedia may need to be updated to reflect this imaginary fact.

IIRC relativity has formulas with factors of the form sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) which go imaginary when v>c and without doubt scientists know this.

Someone knows what "imaginary" means in this context?

AFAICT Tachyonic fields exist unconditionally.

You know, soon we'll be tapping subspace with polymorphic entangled photonic array DNA implants into the 98% junk or "non coding" pairs, and then they'll be telling us our DNA was actually better all along and just requires a few histone induced nucleotide activations. After all, DNA stores information so perhaps twins have a number of entangled photon pairs shared between their medalla strands which allow them to each observe the other simultaneously, but only when the other is also observing...