tachyon

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A hypothetical particle that travels faster than the speed of light.
2. noun A flaw in a physical theory that predicts the existence of tachyons or similar paradoxical results. Compare with ghost.

Similar words

tardyon luxon chronon photon tunnelling dyon warp speed jump torelon tesseract tauonium

Often followed by

is field energy and beam in pulse publications particles

Word family

tachyons