The Tolman "Antitelephone" Paradox: Its Solution by Tachyon Mechanics
Erasmo Recami
Abstract
Some recent experiments led to the claim that something can travel faster than light in vacuum. However, such results do not seem to place relativistic causality in jeopardy. Actually, it is possible to solve also the known causal paradoxes, devised for "faster than c" motion: even if this is not widely recognized. Here we want to show, in detail and rigorously, how to solve the oldest causal paradox, originally proposed by Tolman, which is the kernel of so many further tachyon paradoxes. The key to the solution is a careful application of tachyon mechanics, that can be unambiguously derived from special relativity.
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