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Answer for the clue "Speedy subatomic particle ", 7 letters:
tachyon

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Word definitions for tachyon in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A tachyon or tachyonic particle is a hypothetical particle that always moves faster than light . Most physicists believe that faster-than-light particles cannot exist because they are not consistent with the known laws of physics. If such particles did ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1967, hypothetical faster-than-light particle, from tachy- "swift" + -on .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context particle English) A hypothetical particle that travels faster than the speed of light. 2 (context physics English) A flaw in a physical theory that predicts the existence of tachyons or similar paradoxical results. Compare with ghost.

Usage examples of tachyon.

Eventually, Tachyon rose from his chair and kind of wandered around the apartment for a while, then went to the liquor cabinet, mixed bourbon, gin, Cointreau, vodka, and brandy in a tall cocktail shaker, then gulped the lot.

And the tachyon transmitter had been lost with the Embe and the singleship.

Gregg, Tachyon, and the other political members of the junket were in attendance.

Tachyon was making a koan, a Zen riddle designed to teach a subtle lesson about the nature of life.

He had built a tachyon detector which did not detect tachyons, and that would be enough for Titus Summet to close it down.

Gravitational waves laid hold of the tachyons which sprang into being, paired with tardyons, and formed them into a beam, and modulated it.

In other words, tachyons and tardyons must coexist everywhere and are merely different expressions of identical phenomena.

Turtle dropped like a plummeting stone, and seizing Tachyon with his teke, he deposited him on the steps of a fountain.

Tachyon and Senator Hartmann and their entire party of touring Europeans know this?

Such improvements as had been made on late-twentieth-century technology werelike tachyon bombs and warships two kilometers longat best, interesting developments of things that only required the synergy of money and existing engineering techniques.

According to this Sacred Physics book, the Big Bang Story that broke open the cosmic ylem egg showered out the Beings along with all the quarks and tachyons and all the rest of them.

Tachyon had told the authorities it was a mutant form, capable of reinfecting even stable aces and jokers.

Moreover, the work of Gliozzi, Scherk, and Olive had one other crucial result: They showed that the troublesome tachyon vibration of the bosonic string does not afflict the superstring.

Tachyon was waiting just beneath the ABC skybox, wearing his cavalier coat with the slashes and turnbacks, the riding breeches and boots.

Tachyon, Senator Hartmann, Hiram Worchester, and other important and influential politicians and aces streamed toward the limos waiting for them, while Chrysalis, Wilde, and the other obvious jokers on the tour had to make do with the dirty, dented jeeps clustered at the rear of the cavalcade.