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Tachyons are exhibited in many novels of the late science fiction author, Frank Herbert.

Tachyons are also central in Gregory Benford's seminal novel Timescape, where the main character tries to use them in order to warn people in his past about events that are in their future (but are past for him). Part of the story is set on the Columbia University campus in homage to Gerald Feinberg[1].

Tachyons were discussed in the NBC series Journeyman as an explanation of the protagonist's (Dan Vasser) ability to travel back in time.

Tachyons are extensively used in the television series Star Trek. In Star Trek the tachyon is used mostly in situations regarding space-time anomalies but there is no real consistency to the use of the tachyon. An "inverted tachyon" is also quite common in Star Trek. The tachyon, however, is most extensively used in the later era of Star Trek (TNG, VOY and DS9).

Other places it's been used:

  • Doctor Who "The Leisure Hive" - A tachyon regeneration generator was used.
  • Blake's 7 "Orbit" - The renegade scientist Egrorian demonstrates an ultimate weapon: the tachyon funnel.
  • Eureka (TV series) "Pilot" - A scientist causing the collision of tachyons destabilizes time and space.
  • In Eve Online An Amarrian "Named" Mega Beam Laser is the "Tachyon Beam Laser I/II" It has a slow reload time, but causes massive damage over long distance.
  • Tachyons are the only known weakness of Doctor Manhattan in the Watchmen comic book series, as his precognitive abilities can be disrupted by them. Ozymandias used this method to evade Doctor Manhattan's detection.
  • Most powerful beam weapon in real-time strategy game Total Annihilation
  • The X-Files "Synchrony" - An old man is capable of time travel through the use of tachyons.
  • In the movie, Prince of Darkness (film) by John Carpenter, a tachyon beam is used to send communication of the world's impending danger from the future to characters of the movie in the form of dreams.
  • K-PAX by Gene Brewer references tachyons in Prot's explanation of faster than light travel.
  • In Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" novels, the oft-used "Hyperspace-Jump" is explained to be a total conversion from normal matter to tachyons, allowing for instantaneous inter-spatial travel.[citation needed]
  • In the video game "Dino Stalker", each level must be completed before time runs out. The player can collect tachyons which temporarily stop the clock for either 5 (Purple) or 30 (Blue) seconds. Tachyons can be found floating above the ground or by destroying the in game environment.
  • Red Dwarf "Holoship" - Kryten says that the holoship has no mass or volume and is able to travel as super-light particles (tachyons).
  • In Freelancer there are weapons and shields that are "tachyon based".
  • In Fantastic Four "Rise of the Silver Surfer", Reed Richards suggests using a tachyon pulse to separate the Silver Surfer from his surf board.
  • In Babylon5 tachyons are the basic particles which allow time travel, essential for the five year story arc, especially in the case of character Jeffrey Sinclair.
  • In the adventure space flight simulation computer game Wing Commander: Privateer the tachyon cannon is the third most powerful blaster weapons that the player can purchase for his or her ship, behind the plasma and ionic pulse cannons.
  • In Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, the Tachyon bolt is a weapon that can be equipped to land, sea, and air combat units
  • In Margaret Peterson Haddix's book "Found", an airplane labeled TACHYON TRAVEL appears from the future, carrying adults transformed into babies due to the time-warping effects of tachyon travel.
  • In X-Com:UFO Defense's PS1 ending, a dying Ethereal enables a tachyon which signals the invaders seen in the next game, X-Com:Terror from the Deep. This ending varies from the PC/Dos/Amiga ending those of which are considered non-canonical
  • In Star Trek: Voyager "The Caretaker I & II" , the USS Voyager is transported through time and space via a tachyon beam. The starship is instantaneously transwarped 75,000 light years from Earth.
  1. ^ Old Legends, an essay by Gregory Benford, appears in New Legends, ISBN 0099319012