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Re:A new tool for finding dark matter digs up nothing by alecst on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @02:52PM (#30769942)
That's exactly the kind of question a curious physics student would ask. This might be what you're looking for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyonic_field

> In physics, a tachyonic field, or simply tachyon, is a quantum field with an imaginary mass.

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Re:A new tool for finding dark matter digs up nothing by henriquecm8 on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @03:31PM (#30770406)
I hear the word Tachyon so much in science fiction that I was under the impression it was a sci-fi word.
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Re:A new tool for finding dark matter digs up nothing by Someone on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @03:54PM (#30770679)
It almost is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon#History:

The term tachyon was coined by Gerald Feinberg in a 1967 paper titled "Possibility of faster-than-light particles". He had been inspired by the science-fiction story "Beep" by James Blish.“

I don’t think “Beep” introduced the word, though (https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1954-02)

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