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   Dawn Flood to Vincent Maycock   
   Re: Another concept for Dawn Davenport t   
   11 Nov 25 23:35:13   
   
   XPost: alt.paranormal, alt.atheism, sci.physics   
   XPost: alt.alien.research   
   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/11/2025 10:55 PM, Vincent Maycock wrote:   
   > On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:29:01 -0600, Dawn Flood   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 11/11/2025 1:35 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   >>> On 11/11/25 1:45 PM, Dawn Flood wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Yes, as of today, they are excluded!   
   >>>   
   >>> No. Are you on the spectrum or something?  You have a VERY rigid   
   >>> way of thinking, excessively limited. Here, for instance, you   
   >>> reveal that you believe anything not accepted as fact by the   
   >>> mainstream is excluded. But "Excluded" means that the evidence   
   >>> rules it out, and that's not the case at all here. There is   
   >>> actually some supporting evidence FOR their existence, albeit   
   >>> not compelling.   
   >>>   
   >>>        ...and then you do a Copy & Paste dump of random info   
   >>> hoping to bullshit people into thinking you're not an idiot.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> My undergraduate degree is in computer science, and I have a MBA from   
   >> the University of Iowa.   
   >>   
   >> As with so many things, one cannot, at least on empirical grounds,   
   >> "prove a negative". and so, it will likely be impossible to ever prove   
   >> the nonexistence of tachyons.  Having said that, by the principle of   
   >> parsimony ("Occam's Razor"), we are free to say that such superluminal   
   >> particles do not exist.   
   >>   
   >> You are, of course, "free to believe" in whatever!  Regardless,   
   >> physicists have not yet included tachyons in the Standard Model,   
   >> relegating them instead to the realm of the "hypothetical".   
   >   
   > Their imaginary mass might rule out their existence from a theoretical   
   > perspective.   
      
   Yeah, and if only such were in pill form!!   
      
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