When Albert Einstein said that nothing travels faster than the speed of light, he didn’t talk about objects that could already be travelling faster than light. This is a mind-boggling idea that some physicists have explored over the years, and they call these hypothetical particles tachyons.
We recently spoke with Columbia University theoretical physicist Brian Greene about these faster-than-light particles. Here’s what he had to say on the matter.
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