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<font color="yellow">Well if they were created in a particle, I would assume you would be able to detect them if they were created, simply from Conservation of energy and Momentum. But if they did exist, they present a very interesting paradox if special relativity is to be believed(which for all intents and purposes it is). Maybe the creation of a tachyon places one in a non-inertial refrence frame where general relativity does not work, or tachyons are an artifact of us being in a non-inertial refrence frame kind of like the Centrifugal force. All wild speculation from me though... </font><br /><br />During particle annihilation, it would be possible to detect a tachyon burping upward into our universe as the following illustration suggests. However, the speed of impact would involve speeds greater than anyone is willing to concede to, because this will most likely equate to a paradox, in which the particle and tachyon, and/or their fragmentation switches sides briefly. A photon with zero mass and zero charge might succeed.