How permeable do you think the "air gap" between tachyon particles and slow particles are to energy transmission? i.e. tachyon particle waves incidentally interacting with our lame by comparison slow particles. self.askscience If the below is too long feel free to pretend it doesn't exist. I'm just providing further context into the question if anyone is interested. So energy travels through particles via waves. And since particles have mass, with the exception of photons, the velocity of any wave when measured by particle velocity would never exceed c, right? But if tachyon waves do exist would it be possible that even if only in limited circumstances, such as when particles collide at nearing light speeds, that stray "tachyon particle waves" may find the right mass-bound slow particles to excite and thereby result in a class of exotic "inverted-matter?" It seems if even however rare, which I don't necessarily believe it to be, there would still be a variety of prevailing observable and seemingly sporadic effects--all with a common mechanism of action. If true, what implications do you guys think this would have? I imagine the permeability of the air gap between tachyon particles and slow particles may explain, among many other things, why mass increases with velocity. Also, any experts on the Higgs Field have any thought on this? Thanks for reading. I'll value any responses, even bad and malicious ones.