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You mean, assume we take a bunch of charged particles with relativistic speeds and see what happens when they interact? That's what physicists do using acceler
by pfedor 17y ago
You mean, assume we take a bunch of charged particles with relativistic speeds and see what happens when they interact? That's what physicists do using accelerators. (Except they don't really observe the positions of particles at all times, they just see what goes in and what comes out, which is OK because as I mentioned that is all we can compute anyway.) When the velocities, and therefore energies, involved are really high you can't talk of any classical approximation because the quantum-field-theoretic effects take over and you observe phenomena like particle creation and annihilation etc. When the velocities are low you will probably observe non-relativistic two-body Coulomb scattering, which is mathematically no different from the Newtonian interaction between a planetoid and the Sun.
- cool-RR 17y agoI think you are complicating this too much. Firstly, I don't mean particles; Just small enough bodies. And near-lightspeed velocities are not necessary; Maybe 5% of lightspeed will do. When the velocities are low you will probably observe non-relativistic two-body Coulomb scattering, which is mathematically no different from the Newtonian interaction between a planetoid and the Sun. Dude, what does that mean? Can you solve the problem I raised or not?
- pfedor 17y agoWhen the velocities are low you will probably observe non-relativistic two-body Coulomb scattering, which is mathematically no different from the Newtonian interaction between a planetoid and the Sun. Dude, what does that mean? Dude, google it if you want to know: http://www.google.com/search?q=coulomb+scattering http://www.google.com/search?q=coulomb+scattering Can you solve the problem I raised or not? This I believe I have already answered above.