Re: Could "Dark Matter" simply be a composite of Tachyons?

From	Lofty Goat <rlwatkins@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Could "Dark Matter" simply be a composite of Tachyons?
Date	2018-04-25 20:31 -0500
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 07:15:17 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Kraus wrote:

> ... travelling at speeds faster than the speed of light....

Wouldn't they then emit Cherenkov radiation until they'd lost all their
energy, wind up moving at infinite speed and possess no mass?

Hard to see how all this fits together.

> ... it's comprised of sub-atomic particles....

Why do people persist in believing that using the word "comprise" in
place of "compose" makes them sound high-brow?

"Comprise" means pretty much the same thing as "include".  It comes to
us from Latin, has meant the same thing for two millennia.

-- 
Goat

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Could "Dark Matter" simply be a composite of Tachyons? Jerry Kraus <jkraus1999@gmail.com> - 2018-04-24 07:15 -0700
  Re: Could "Dark Matter" simply be a composite of Tachyons? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-04-24 15:46 +0000
    Re: Could "Dark Matter" simply be a composite of Tachyons? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-04-25 08:16 -0700
      Re: Could "Dark Matter" simply be a composite of Tachyons? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-04-25 15:22 +0000
        Re: Could "Dark Matter" simply be a composite of Tachyons? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-04-25 08:55 -0700
          Re: Could "Dark Matter" simply be a composite of Tachyons? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-04-25 08:59 -0700
            Re: Could "Dark Matter" simply be a composite of Tachyons? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-04-25 16:15 +0000
              Re: Could "Dark Matter" simply be a composite of Tachyons? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-04-25 09:21 -0700
                Re: Could "Dark Matter" simply be a composite of Tachyons? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-04-25 17:07 +0000
          Re: Could "Dark Matter" simply be a composite of Tachyons? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-04-25 16:15 +0000
  Re: Could "Dark Matter" simply be a composite of Tachyons? Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-04-24 09:27 -0700
    Re: Could "Dark Matter" simply be a composite of Tachyons? Jerry Kraus <jkraus1999@gmail.com> - 2018-04-24 11:46 -0700
      Re: Could "Dark Matter" simply be a composite of Tachyons? Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-04-25 10:26 -0700
        Re: Could "Dark Matter" simply be a composite of Tachyons? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-04-25 13:13 -0700
          Re: Could "Dark Matter" simply be a composite of Tachyons? Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-04-25 19:46 -0700
            Re: Could "Dark Matter" simply be a composite of Tachyons? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-04-26 07:13 -0700
              Re: Could "Dark Matter" simply be a composite of Tachyons? moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2018-04-26 15:01 +0000
                Re: Could "Dark Matter" simply be a composite of Tachyons? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-04-26 09:04 -0700
  Re: Could "Dark Matter" simply be a composite of Tachyons? Lofty Goat <rlwatkins@gmail.com> - 2018-04-25 20:31 -0500

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