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Do tachyons produce an unacceptable gravitational field?

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The geodesics and the curvature of a metric representing an isolated tachyon are investigated. It is argued that the properties are unphysical and inconsistent with observation, thus providing further evidence against the existence of tachyons.

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  1. Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Centre for Nonlinear Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Bishop, N.T. Do tachyons produce an unacceptable gravitational field?. Found Phys 19, 619–624 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00734663

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