Tachyon energy

I am going to write about something not related to christianity, or atheism this time. This time I'd like to share my recent experience with really close minded people, that believe strongly in something not related with religion, their belief is very similar to religious beliefs, though.

Recently I visited a talk about something called tachyon energy. When I first heard about the theme of the talk, I refused going to watch the talk. Because of the person, who told me about the talk, I knew, this talk won't be about tachyons as in quantum physics described. I knew, it's going to be some sort of esoteric stupidity. But then I changed my mind and thought of it as perfect oportunity to ask some really nasty questions.

So in the end, I went to the place, where the talk was supposed to be presented. I knew, what were the claims of the presentator beforehand, because I had read about them on the internet before the talk. So basically I only listened about tachyon beliefs from a woman, that is actually a veterinair, not a  physicist. She talked about how tachyons move faster than light(so far so good), then she talked about how this world is created from tachyons, how tachyons are building blocks of this world(which is not correct). She presented some things called tachyon disks, which looked like CD's, she claimed, these disks have healing powers(which they obviously didn't, but other people attending the talk believed her ultimately). And other things. She claimed she studies University of Integrated Science in California. This "university" is not acredited by any ministry of education in the world. That's one thing. The basic idea of the "university" is, you see, that the science and spirituality is somehow connected, can be somehow connected.

But I rather wonder, what do they really teach in this university? Several people asked the presenter of the talk about specific questions, like how the tachyon products are exactly made. She didn't know the answer, she didn't understand, how the spirituality and science are connected. So what do the students study on that "school"? Clearly, they're not studying the mechanics of how spirituality is connected to the science.

Anyway, let's just focus on how these incorrect statements harm people and economy. First of all.. What are tachyons? Most of you probably never heard about the word. Tachyons are hypothetical particles, that moves faster than light. The key word in that sentence is HYPOTHETICAL. Tachyons have a little story about them and here is, how it goes:
In the 30's or so, some physicists wondered: Is there any particle moving faster than light?
In the 60's some guys looked at the question, made some math and came up with attributes of such hypothetical particles. So one of them is for example, that unlike particles in "our" world(moving slower than light) with increasing energy tachyons slow down. They never reach speed of light(just like particles moving with velocity less than speed of light), but the more energy, the slower they are and the closer they are to the speed of light. With less energy, tachyons move faster and faster. But that's not important.
Physicist encountered serious problems with this type of particle though. They came up with conclusion, this particle is not possible to exist, because it would violate causality.

Here is why: There's a mathematical model, called tachyonic telephone. It goes like this, there are two people, one of them is moving with velocity less than speed of light, the other one moves faster than light. So let's call the slower guy Bob, the faster will be a girl, she is called Alice. Bob sends message(presumably a question, which he wants Alice to answer). Alice receives the message and sends immediately response back to Bob. Because of series of mathematical calculations, it was discovered, that if Alice would send response back to Bob, he would recieve the message sooner, than he even sended the original message to Alice. So this is clear violating of causality and as such is not possible in this world.

That's only one reason, why scientists think, tachyons don't exist. There is much more of them, in fact, I will include wikipedia article about tachyons in the end of this entry. And there you can see more about this issue. With some math background as well.

So right away, the question comes: If the university of integrated science connects science with spirituality, how come, they don't know, that tachyons are impossible to exist? Why they contradict science, if they are using it as their base knowledge, on which they build?

The answer is pretty straightforward. Guess, what you have to do in order to study the university: You have to pay money! They don't care about science, about education, about anything like this at all. They want you to study their "university" so you will pay them, pay for their books and so on and they make it rather simple, so that every person is able to pass actually the university, so that they keep paying for every year.  There is absolutely NO science taught in this "school" at all. In fact, when I asked, since they base their arguments on quantum physics, about studying math in this university, I was told by the presenter, they don't study any math, they don't care and they don't need it.

That's funny, because quantum physics is all just math and pretty much almost nothing else. But these people, that believe in such stupid claims are so arogant, they will even argue about science with you, even though they never heard anything about how real science is done. They tend to act like they are the ones, that know the truth about this world and if you are skeptic to their beliefs, you are close minded. It's the other way around actually, because you listen to reason, to what discoveries and precise methodics have to say, they listen only to what they would like to believe. But you will never explain that to fanatics like these.

What happens is terrible somehow, though. Lot of people around the world are being lied to. And they accept it with open arms and are even willing to pay for it. It's really dangerous, because first of all, they spend money, that could be used for anything more meaningfull than this. From this perspective, they are harming economy, what in global scope harms everyone. Not just themselves. The other thing is, that financial means are needed very often to stop crazy ideas like these, when they become dangerous to security of other people. Financial means are needed to reeducate people, to change the view of manipulated crowds of people. This is harming everyone and it's time to face this as real problem, because it already is a problem and because if there won't be done anything, it might become much more serious issue in the future.

Please, if you have read this, I'd like you to first of all get rid of all stupid beliefs, that are in conflict with common sense and reason. You're not harming only yourself, but others as well. The second thing I'd like you to do is persuade other people about rationality, about how other people want you to believe anything crazy, so they can get money from you, about how important is to stop these charlatans. And I hope, there will come a day, we will be able to stand up and say, that all these illogical beliefs are only a matter of past.

Links related to tachyons:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyonic_antitelephone