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Past, Present, Future: Time Travel with Brian Greene

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Is There Any Idea on How to Detect Theorized Tachyon Particle?

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In the frontier of science, is there any idea on how to try and detect the theorized Tachyon particle? So... Remind us what Tachyon is, Brian. And do you have a particle that can go faster than the speed of light? How would you ever detect these things? It's actually not that hard. You start with a particle at one location and you fire it into space. But in principle ... somebody gets a cockamamie observation which would later be shown to be wrong. That was the key tip off immediately that nothing gets too far away from reality.

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