Nora Tachyon
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Mrs. Tachyon | |
Name | Nora Tachyon, also known as "Tacky Nora" |
Race | Human, but... |
Age | Very old |
Occupation | Tramp |
Physical appearance | Old, wearing all her clothes at once |
Residence | Blackbury through the ages |
Death | |
Parents | |
Relatives | |
Children | |
Marital Status | "Mrs" suggests widowed |
Appearances | |
Books | Johnny and the Bomb |
Cameos | Johnny and the Dead |
Mrs Tachyon is the local baglady of Blackbury. She pushes a shopping cart filled with black plastic bags wherever she goes. She has been an old lady for ages...
She is often accompanied by a real cat named Guilty.
In The BBC adaptation of Johnny and the Bomb she was played by Zoë Wanamaker.
Annotation
A Tachyon is a theoretical faster than light particle. As it moves faster than light, it must also move backwards in time, and is therefore a staple for sci-fi writers everywhere who want to add some quantum physics into their novels.