but there are people working on it :))) "We are beginning an experiment at Berkeley to detect tachyon-like quasiparticles. There are strong scientific reasons to believe that such quasiparticles really exist, because Maxwell's equations, when coupled to inverted atomic media, lead inexorably to tachyon-like solutions.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-known-about-tachy/ well maybe sooner than we think :))) but who's counting lol