Can anything travel faster than light? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explain what a tachyon is and how it could travel faster than the speed of light.
What happens when you go faster than the speed of light? What are different ways to move faster than light? We break down a tachyon’s relationship to time, Cherenkov radiation, and how the early universe expanded faster than the speed of light.
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00:00 - Breaking the Speed of Light
3:03 - How Tachyons Work
4:42 - Light Traveling Through Different Media & Cherenkov Radiation
9:45 - A Sonic Boom For Light
