Star Trek technobable on the street
01.04.2008 18:33
Sadly, this is not an April fools' day joke. I've seen this sign today outside a store in Ljubljana:
Roughly translated into English, it advertises a tachyonic protection against EM field from cell phones. In common language that means they are selling ignorant customers a very expensive piece of ordinary glass that has protective properties approximately equivalent to an empty beer bottle.
In case you haven't watched enough Star Trek (where they are a very popular plot device) Tachyons are theoretical particles that move faster than the speed of light, have imaginary mass and for which pretty much every solid theory in physics today says they can't exist. So yeah, I'll skip the glass beads and wait until they'll sell me a portable warp coil.
