Why are the religious so sensitive?

[allan175]

If tachyons exist at all then they will probably eventually be proved.

Not necessarily. There is no reason to assume that they must interact with matter and if not then they wouldn't be detectable. There are particles like that in modern physics, i.e. particles which are assumed to exist but it is accepted that they are unobservable. They're called virtual particles.

However http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon says "no experimental evidence for or against the existence of tachyon particles has been found" so they may well just be the product of a formula derived from a mistaken theory.

The only reason the idea of tachyons was even raised by physicists was because someone showed that no physical laws would be broken if they were found to exist. However there is no theory which predicts their existance. The reason I used them as an analogy is because, as the atheists believe about God, there is no proof that they exist and no reason to assume that they do either. The concept of tachyons has appeared in a well respected, pier reviewed physics journal. Do you know of a professional zoology journal in which unicorns are seriously discussed? Is there a difference between talking about unicorns vs. tachyons?

Aha! Well, as you can see I don't know that much about tachyons other than knowing the name (probably from reading science fiction!).
Given those details, no, there is no difference talking about gods/tachyons. There is a difference talking about unicorns since they are supposedly existing alongside us as opposed to some inaccessible supernatural/faster than light place.

On the other hand its concievable that God will make an appearance someday and provide atheists with all the evidence for His existance that they've been asking for all this time. Its been said that it can't be proven that God doesn't exist. Nobody has ever proven that its impossible to prove that he does exist.

I don't quite get your leap of logic there I'm afraid. Why should it be more concievable that god will make an appearance one day than a tachyon/unicorn (or is that what you are getting at?).
And, why should *your* god appear rather than anyone elses?

My version of Pascal's Wager is that I am going to be an atheist, because then, if there is a god, at least I wasn't annoying the real god by worshipping the wrong one(s) (which is pretty likely given the vast selection available).