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We comment on the previous paper by L. Basano. In particular, we show that its Section 2 is kinematically incorrect (the dynamics of a two-body interaction through tachyon exchange, incidentally, has already been thoroughly expounded in one paper of ours). Its Section 1 is simply a rather subjective introduction. As to its Section 3, containing indeed interesting problems, we again briefly refer to our earlier work. Our conclusions are still in favor of “au revoir to tachyons!,” even if it is known that inside our cosmos tachyons are more likely to have a role in physics (e.g., in elementary particle and black-hole physics) as “exchanged objects” rather than as “asymptotically free” objects.
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Work partially supported by CNR (Contract no. 79.02741) and MPI (mod. A/4).
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Maccarrone, G.D., Recami, E. Comments on “Farewell to tachyons?”. Found Phys 10, 949–957 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00708691
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