Proposal for Experiment in Tachyon Generation

[Michael J]

The concept combines the already-existing technologies of neutrino generators with skyrmion lattices, which thus far have been suggested as an information storage technology.  I believe skyrmion lattices have an application in tachyon generation.

 

It is my belief that if we can "skim" neutrinos just above a skyrmion lattice, this may generate spin in the neutrinos which supports the sustainment of a negative mass state in the particle subsequent to a magneton collision, an effect not as yet observed because non-spinning neutrinos do not resist mass restoration.  The device would consist of a neutrino generation phase, a lattice skimming phase, and a magneton collision phase.  During the skimming phase, preventing collisions would be critical, and during the collision phase, obviously, collisions would be desired.  Lattice #2 would have to be a fraction of a nanometer higher in elevation than the first, and it would have to be shielded to prevent magnetons from colliding prematurely.

 

The implications are enormous.  I understand this is only a hypothesis, but I believe a simple experiment could confirm or disprove the findings and may be worth your while.

 

Regards.

[MigL]

What makes you think neutrinos will even interact with topological solitons ?

[Kartazion]

39 minutes ago, Michael J said:

The concept combines the already-existing technologies of neutrino generators with skyrmion lattices, which thus far have been suggested as an information storage technology.  I believe skyrmion lattices have an application in tachyon generation.

Hello.

A tachyon is a hypothetical particle that always travels faster than light. But nothing goes faster than light. So either it's doomed to fail or you can perhaps explain this difference in speed increased?

Thanks.

[Michael J]

Hey there thanks for the question.  What I'm suggesting here is that electron neutrinos can conditionally be made to have negative mass, albeit temporarily, thus temporarily becoming tachyons.  From our perspective, the particle should cease to exist upon colliding with the magneton and should arrive at the detector before the message is sent, temporally speaking.  It's not so much that it can't be done, it's just that there's no way to observe it when it's in the mass inverted state.  Eventually, the mass would be restored and it would become observable again as a standard 'electron neutrino.'  Catch is, it would be in the past instead of in the present.

My reasoning is that since we already know that coordinated electron spin is what causes magnetism (thus, spin affects behavior) then solitons should also be able to have their own spin that affects their behavior and interaction with quarks and what not.  I think thus far it's been hard to see what's going on because of how hard it is to get two particles that are so small to collide with each other. 

[joigus]

Neutrinos hardly interact at all. As MigL said, how are they supposed to interact with macroscopic skyrmions? What's the mechanism?

How do you focalise a beam of electron neutrinos so as to guarantee that they keep at a distance of a fraction of a nanometer from a lattice?

Why should they invert their mass?

And if they do, tachyonic quantum fields do not travel faster than light, and they do not have negative mass, but imaginary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyonic_field

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The term "tachyon" was coined by Gerald Feinberg in a 1967 paper^[7] that studied quantum fields with imaginary mass. Feinberg believed such fields permitted faster than light propagation, but it was soon realized that this was not the case.^[6] Instead, the imaginary mass creates an instability in the configuration: any configuration in which one or more field excitations are tachyonic will spontaneously decay, and the resulting configuration contains no physical tachyons. This process is known as tachyon condensation. A famous example is the condensation of the Higgs boson in the Standard Model of particle physics.

(My emphasis.)

I will also quote a sentence that I once heard Lenny Susskind:

"Only crackpots think tachyons go faster than light"

Edited July 4, 2021 by joigus
minor addition

[joigus]

Negative mass poses other problems:

I'm not 100 % sure that you can't still play with these things in a speculative way by carefully distinguishing:

1) Active gravitational mass (as source of the gravitational field)

2) Passive gravitational mass (as reacting to a gravitational field)

3) Inertia

And complicating the picture of how they interplay by introducing assumptions that extend the Bondi-Bonnor model.

But negative mass is a completely different matter.

Keep in mind that the Einstein relation between energy and momentum leaves you with,

\[ E^{2} = \pm \sqrt{\boldsymbol{p}^2 + m^2 c^4 } \]

Time orientation is on the plus minus determination of the square root, not on the sign of the mass.

[Kartazion]

Partial Wikipedia summary:

The possibility of Standard Model particles moving at faster-than-light speeds can be modeled using Lorentz invariance violating terms called the Standard-Model Extension (SME). In addition, the Standard Model is a generalization of quantum electrodynamics (QED) whose negative mass is already part of the theory. Neutrinos experience Lorentz-violating oscillations can travel faster than light at high energies. But the question lies in the negative Mass-Square of neutrinos  https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0009291.  As joigus says the fields with imaginary mass coined the term "tachyon", Gerald Feinberg studied Lorentz invariant quantum fields with imaginary mass. Because the group velocity for such a field is superluminal, naively it appears that its excitations propagate faster than light. However, it was quickly understood that the superluminal group velocity does not correspond to the speed of propagation of any localized excitation (like a particle). Instead, the negative mass represents an instability to tachyon condensation, and all excitations of the field propagate subluminally and are consistent with causality. Despite having no faster-than-light propagation, such fields are referred to simply as "tachyons" in many sources.