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The tachyon particle has an intriguing time travel component.
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Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2023
Yes, there is a hypothetical particle, called the tachyon, that could travel back in time.
—Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
Unfortunately, this proto-string theory made incorrect predictions about the nature of the strong force and also had a variety of troublesome artifacts (like the existence of tachyons, particles that only traveled faster than light).
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2023
This predicts that every particle has a superpartner and, by an extraordinary coincidence, the same condition actually eliminates the tachyon.
—Lorenzo Bianchi, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2018
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Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2023
Yes, there is a hypothetical particle, called the tachyon, that could travel back in time.
—Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
Unfortunately, this proto-string theory made incorrect predictions about the nature of the strong force and also had a variety of troublesome artifacts (like the existence of tachyons, particles that only traveled faster than light).
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2023
This predicts that every particle has a superpartner and, by an extraordinary coincidence, the same condition actually eliminates the tachyon.
—Lorenzo Bianchi, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2018
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“Tachyon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tachyon. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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