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aliases	category	tags	summary	born	died	location
Yakov Terletsky	Scientists & Researchers	Person Soviet	Yakov Terletsky was the chairman of theoretical physics at Moscow University and a winner of the Laureate of the State Prize in the Soviet Union.	1912	1993	Soviet Union

Yakov Terletsky was the chairman of theoretical physics at Moscow University and a winner of the Laureate of the State Prize in the Soviet Union. He was working on hypotheses involving a subatomic particle called a Tachyon, which is proposed to be superluminal, or faster-than-light¹.

His work, along with that of Gerald Feinberg, attracted the attention of Hal Puthoff, who was interested in whether the tachyon flow could account for an "extra field" or force that physics couldn't yet see, potentially explaining Extrasensory Perception and other anomalous mental phenomena¹.

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1. Jacobsen, Annie. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis. Little, Brown and Company, 2017. ↩︎