Have you heard of tachyons?

It is evening, someone sits down on the sofa with a mobile in hand, and in an article or in the comments under a video they come across the word tachyon. It sounds like something out of a science fiction film. What is hiding behind it? And could it have anything to do with our everyday lives? Plenty of us have met the word at some point, and almost everyone imagines something slightly different when they hear it.

The word itself is credited to two physicists, Gerald Feinberg and George Sudarshan, who began writing about particles faster than light in the 1960s. Sudarshan and his colleagues Bilaniuk and Deshpande published the first paper on the idea in 1962, and in 1967 Feinberg gave these particles the name we still use today. How the idea developed within physics is something we cover in a separate article on the physics of tachyons.

My first tachyon

You can look at the tachyon from several sides. Most of the time it is physicists who describe it, as they try to find it a place in quantum theory. When I first became interested in tachyon energy, I read everything I could find online. I soon saw that a lot of people are sceptical about the subject, and that is perfectly natural. At the start I was one of them. So I tried everything on myself first.

Some scientists say the existence of the tachyon has not been confirmed yet. That may also simply mean we cannot measure it so far, since nobody has proved that it does not exist either. In the end, what convinced me most was what I experienced in my own body. That is why I talk about tachyons in plain language, in a way that makes sense to anyone, and leave the detailed physics to the separate article on the physics of tachyons.

A closer look at the tachyon

Still, allow me a short introduction to how physics looks at our world. It is generally said that all forms, whether a stone, a human body or a red Ferrari parked outside the house, are at heart a cluster of vibrations. The slower they vibrate, the denser they are. The faster they vibrate, the finer their structure becomes, and the clearer too. What separates one from another is frequency, much as one radio station differs from the next only by the number on the dial.

All the forms in our world have one thing in common: they move more slowly than light. That does not mean other forms cannot exist. The faster ones are simply beyond what we can see. Quantum physicists call what lies beyond this boundary the zero-point field. Until now, according to this view, the only known way of coming into contact with that field has been spiritual practice.

The zero-point field holds everything needed for a form to come into being. It contains every possible form in seed, while having no shape or boundaries of its own. This is exactly where tachyons come in. The literature on Tachyon describes them as go-betweens linking the zero-point field with everything that moves below the speed of light.

How to picture them

The image of a messenger helps. We can think of tachyons as couriers from the zero-point field, that great store of all energy, who hand other forms the information they need at that moment.

Because tachyons have no particular frequency of their own, they represent a perfectly ordered structure. It does not matter what state the one "receiving" them is in. A tachyon particle carries complete information, and so, according to this theory, the structure of whoever receives it can also settle into a balanced state.

Putting the scattered back in order

For us, this role is the most important thing to understand. In the words of Andreas Jell, tachyons put structures in order and organise them at every level.

Picture a child's bedroom with toys scattered all over the floor. You can only cross it carefully, and it does not really serve any purpose. Now Mr Tachyon walks in and puts every toy back where it belongs. Suddenly the room looks nicer, you can walk through it, and it can be used again for what it was meant for. Which of the two rooms would you rather be in?

It is the same with energy. Ordered structures make the best use of it and let it flow on to the other parts of the system. When a form falls into disorder for whatever reason, the energy that nourishes it drops. The point to stress here is that structure is what matters. A supply of energy on its own is not enough.

The body works in a similar way. A person with a markedly curved spine can go for back massages for years, and as long as the spine stays curved, the ache will keep coming back. It is like pouring water into a glass with a hole in it. Whether you pour Evian or tap water, the result is the same.

According to Jell, this helper is available to all of us, all the time. It is everywhere around us and at the same time it is what connects us to one another. It is a holistic view of how the universe works, and we go into it in detail in the article on tachyon energy.

What it does for us in practice

Fine, but what can all of this actually do for us? Personally, I think of tachyonized products as a kind of crutch, something I can lean on in life.

When my body is recovering, they help me give it energy and, at the same time, turn my own attention towards that recovery. The manufacturer describes its products in general as aids for calm, balance and a pleasant atmosphere at home or at work, and the smallest of them, such as the 24 mm micro-disk, are easy to keep close at hand during a long day at the computer.

I also use them when I want to find my balance, physical and mental, to relax and to sense myself and the world around me more deeply. According to Jell, they can give energy for a while to almost every form, living or not. People place them next to the plants in their flat or use them with their animals. Because they work on the outer energy layers of the body, this theory holds that they can deepen sleep and make it calmer. Finally, they can help you understand where a sense of unease that troubles you comes from, in other words bring information about its nature into awareness.

This list, of course, is not complete. Each of us can discover further uses in the areas we spend our time on. Try them out yourself, in your own home and in your own rhythm, and see what you notice over a few weeks. That is how I started, and it taught me more than any article. If you would like to look at the products, begin with the product overview.

Sources

• Dr Andreas Jell: Tachyon, klíč ke zdraví. Souhrnná příručka o tachyonech, možnostech používání tachyonizovaných produktů a léčení tachyonovou energií, 2005 (in Czech; "Tachyon, the key to health: a comprehensive handbook on tachyons, the ways tachyonized products can be used, and healing with tachyon energy").
• G. Feinberg: Possibility of Faster-Than-Light Particles, Physical Review 159, 1967.
• O. M. P. Bilaniuk, V. K. Deshpande, E. C. G. Sudarshan: "Meta" Relativity, American Journal of Physics 30, 1962.