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Albert Einstein has a famous loophole in the special theory of relativity that could predict faster-than-light travel

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When Albert Einstein said that nothing travels faster than the speed of light, he didn't talk about objects that could already be traveling faster than light. This is a mind-boggling idea that some physicists have explored over the years, and they call these hypothetical particles tachyons. 

We recently spoke with Columbia University theoretical physicist Brian Greene about these faster-than-light particles. Here's what he had to say on the matter.

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