The 5km diameter Particle Accelerator at the Fort Davis Research Field Station of the University of Texas has been modified by the addition of four flux interferometers and a high-speed blink-comparator at the epicentre of the 200,000L hyperboloid tank of Carbon Tetrachloride situated in the Accelerator's focal plane.
This modification was intended to measure the reactions of tachyons during neutrino surges in the continuing study of sub-atomic particles, but the accidental discovery was made during periods of solar maxima that the instrument had in fact become a gigantic wide-field telescope capable of electronically imaging, in a way not yet fully understood, a Universe composed entirely of combinations of tachyons.
Project Director Professor Audi Biemer announced preliminary findings yesterday at the University tricentenary dinner where he was keynote speaker.
Professor Biemer said that superficially the limited view so far obtained of the Tachyon Universe resembled our own with a significant exception.
It had been known that tachyons hitherto examined in our Universe had the ability to travel briefly back in time, but it seems that the Tachyon Universe is not expanding as is ours, but is actually contracting, while star forming as we know it is replaced by stars degrading into rotating masses of tachyon gases.
Also, some gas clouds are contracting into supernovae and shortly afterwards into massive stars.
In a mirror image fashion, the Tachyon Universe is contracting towards its very own big bang.
What the black holes are up to all this time nobody has yet figured out - maybe a blip between supernova and big star.
The Tachyon Universe seems to occupy the same time and space as ours but does not interact with it except in the limited fashion so far demonstrated by the modified Particle Accelerator.