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pith:2025:4YEHYRHSXHAD6TDSHCVBAVCSV2

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Breaching the light barrier without paradoxes

Abhishek Kumar Mehta

The zeta-function turns unphysical backward-time tachyon momenta into infinite sums of forward-time physical momenta, eliminating temporal paradoxes for faster-than-light particles.

arxiv:2503.22704 v2 · 2025-03-18 · physics.gen-ph

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C1strongest claim

The regularization principle resolves the temporal paradoxes associated with faster-than-light particles or tachyons at the macroscopic scale by using the properties of the zeta-function to regularize the unphysical momenta of tachyons that move backwards in-time as an infinite sum of physical tachyon momenta that travel forwards in-time.

C2weakest assumption

That the zeta-function possesses analytic continuation properties that can be physically interpreted as converting a single unphysical backward-time tachyon momentum into a well-defined infinite sum of forward-time physical momenta without introducing new inconsistencies or violating Lorentz invariance.

C3one line summary

A new regularization principle using the zeta-function is proposed to ensure tachyons always travel forward in time across inertial frames, resolving paradoxes at the macroscopic scale.

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e6087c44f2b9c03f4c7238aa105452ae9e435d0d474ee68f65b8cde642e4e829

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arxiv: 2503.22704 · arxiv_version: 2503.22704v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.22704 · pith_short_12: 4YEHYRHSXHAD · pith_short_16: 4YEHYRHSXHAD6TDS · pith_short_8: 4YEHYRHS

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