Universal Journal of Physics and Application Vol. 4(1), pp. 35 - 70
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TACHYONS AND PSEUDOTACHYONIC RELATIVITY

AUTHOR(S) INFORMATION: Dias Ferreira L.F.T

ABSTRACT

I propose a reinterpretation of “Lorentz tachyonic transformations” — for |v| > c — and subsequently the fundaments of a Pseudotachyonic Relativity. We'll see that some usually “absurd results” become comprehensible. Besides some brief reflections on issues of time inversion and causality, the main ideas and conclusions presented here are: • a tachyonic reference frame may only be detected as its “associated frame”, which has lower-than-light velocity and in which time appears in an inverted flow; • we cannot directly detect tachyons but instead their pseudotachyonic “images”. • information cannot be communicated in a faster-than-light way. In a future article, I intend to show how these new transformations naturally conduce to a strictly relativistic conception of antimatter: in brief, an antiparticle is no more than the subluminal “image” of a tachyonic homologous particle.