I say any massless particle that has a charge supporting a Coulomb force must travel at the speed of light or faster because the Coulomb force travels at the speed of light and a charged massless particle will be repelled by its own Coulomb force.
-----Original Message----- From: Russell Standish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 3:04 PM To: John Ross Cc: 'Stephen Paul King'; everything-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: Neutrino shield idea On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:11:04AM -0700, John Ross wrote: > * Only photons travel at the speed of light. (Except my tronnies that > usually go faster than the speed of light.) Who says? Any massless particle will travel at the speed of light. -- *PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a virus. It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this email came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you may safely ignore this attachment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 8308 3119 (mobile) Mathematics 0425 253119 (") UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----
