"I know that this sort of baseless speculation serves no practical purpose in scientific research."
Lü Yongchang chuckled as he spoke.
"But it's your speculation!" an academician called out. "In all this time, Professor Lü, none of your conjectures have ever been disproved!"
Lü Yongchang pursed his lips and said, half joking, "What if I'm wrong this time?"
"Then..." The academician scratched his head, an awkward smile immediately appearing on his face.
A ripple of quiet, good-natured laughter spread through the Command Center.
"All right, back to the subject." Lü Yongchang reached out and pulled over a Holographic Projection, then began writing on it. "Words alone prove nothing. Next, I'll briefly explain the reasoning behind this conclusion."
As his words fell, the relaxed atmosphere in the Command Center immediately grew serious.
Every academician stared wide-eyed, afraid of missing even a punctuation mark in his reasoning.
After all, everyone knew that Professor Lü's deductions took unusually wild leaps.
A moment's distraction could mean missing something crucial.
"First, according to special relativity, objects with mass cannot exceed the speed of light. Like protons and electrons, their speed can only approach the speed of light indefinitely."
"So, for tachyons, we need to introduce a concept."
"Imaginary mass."
"A long time ago, in the course of our research into quantum physics, we reached a conclusion."
"Imaginary numbers aren't unreal. Imaginary numbers that have mathematical significance also have corresponding significance in reality."
As he spoke, Lü Yongchang rapidly scribbled on the Holographic Projection.
"Based on these derivations, we can extrapolate the concept of imaginary numbers."
"From there, we arrive at the concept of imaginary mass."
"And a tachyon's mass is an imaginary mass."
"That is precisely why it can escape the constraints of special relativity and become a Faster-than-Speed of Light particle."
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