Re: Tachyons and Black Holes

From: Franz Heymann (notfranz.heymann_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:56:25 +0000 (UTC)

"Morituri-|-Max" <newage@sendarico.net> wrote in message
news:MwQPd.50945$sr1.46845@fe2.texas.rr.com...
> Jason wrote:
> >> You are probably correct that a tachyon could escape a black
hole,
> >> but note that there's a major problem with tachyons in
> >> relativity--because of the way different frames define
simultaneity
> >> differently, any particle going faster than light in one frame
will
> >> actually be going backwards in time in another, so if the laws
> >> governing tachyons work the same way in every frame, it will be
> >> possible to use tachyons to send information backwards in time.
> >>
> >> Jesse
> >
> > I thought that going the speed of light caused you to go forward
in
> > time, or make time seem very fast? But then if your assumtion
about

> Going at the speed of light doesn't make you go forward in time..
the time
> in *your* frame slows as you go faster.

No. That assertion is full of nonsense.
Firstly, you have mass, therefore you can not move at the speed of
light relative to any inertial frame.
Secondly, in your frame you are stationary.
Thirdly, in your frame, your clock measures proper time.

> Time for the person going a certain speed moves at a rate specific
to him.

What is that actually supposed to mean.

Franz

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