Gerald Feinberg (27 May 1933 – 21 April 1992) was a Columbia University physicist, futurist and popular science author.
[1] Feinberg went to Bronx High School of Science with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Glashow and obtained his bachelor's and graduate degrees from Columbia University.
He coined the term tachyon for hypothetical faster-than-light particles and analysed their quantum field properties,[5] predicted the existence of the muon neutrino[6] and advocated cryonics as a public service.
His concept of a tachyon, a theoretical particle that travels faster than the speed of light has been advocated by some parapsychologists who claim that it could explain precognition or psychokinesis.
However, there is no scientific evidence tachyon particles exist and such paranormal claims have been described as pseudoscientific.