Tachyon Signals, Causal Paradoxes, and the Relativity of Simultaneity

PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1982:277 - 292 (1982)
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Some elementary properties of tachyons are described and then it is argued that the claim that (T) Tachyons exist, is incompatible with the truth of the Special Theory of Relativity (STR). First it is argued that from T, STR, and the negation of the principle that (Pl) Effect never precedes cause, one can derive a paradoxical conclusion, one of the so-called "causal paradoxes". An obvious response is to affirm (Pl), but then it is argued that (Pl) and (T) entail that STR is false.

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