Faster-Than-Light Pulsar Phenomena

[Egg]

Right, I.... well, I don't get it get it, but I get it enough to know it's not what I thought it might be.

I'm guessing it's like shooting a marshmallow through a brick wall in energy terms. Shouldn't happen but they do it somehow.

[Egg]

Like if Cyclops was able to penetrate Wolverines endoskeleton with his ruby ray. Impossible but he does it somehow.

[Snow Crash]

I getcha.

So... no FTL craft still

[Egg]

I getcha.

So... no FTL craft still

FTL craft?

[Pigeon]

There has been talk for years of tachyons that move faster than light speed.

A tachyon is a hypothetical subatomic particle that moves faster than light. In the language of special relativity, a tachyon would be a particle with space-like four-momentum and imaginary proper time. A tachyon would be constrained to the space-like portion of the energy-momentum graph. Therefore, it cannot slow down to subluminal speeds.

They are not crossing the barrier of light speed.

[Egg]

I know about tachyons from The Next Generation

So, they're basically bypassing light speed traffic?

[Pigeon]

Tachyons exist only at greater than light speed.

[Egg]

Tachyons exist only at greater than light speed.

Ah! No 0-50 for them. Wonder what their deal is...