Exotic Matter and Tachyons

Factual Questions
1

Exotic Matter


Tachyons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon

Due to negative inertia, when you push an exotic matter object, it moves toward the push instead of away.

Tachyons are superluminal particles which must gain energy to slow down to lightspeed and lose energy as it goes to infinite speed.

Is there a connection?

2

Only in so far as they’re both weird, and there’s no evidence for the actual existance of either. Tachyons, if they exist, have a mass that’s not negative, but rather imaginary. This is necessary, so that their energy and momentum (which include the relativistic gamma factor) be real.

3

I felt there was some underlying symmetry between:

  1. Unobserved theoretical constructs, which
  2. Reacts counterintuitively to Newtonian Physics.