On the subject of the UV catastrophe, I'm still not sure I get this. The particles have no mass and no energy, which is an interesting thought (I once speculated that all the mass of composite particles like the proton might come from the binding energy holding together massless constituents, but I believe this thought had already been considered by far better minds than mine, and the consensus is that SOME of the mass of the proton comes from binding energy, but not all of it. I believe it's quite a high proportion, but I can't remember the percentage.)
Anyway, on the subject of tronnies, these are charged particles moving in a circle. I believe charged particles when accelerated are supposed to emit energy, which in a classical view would lead to the system collapsing. However tronnies have no mass or energy (and move faster than light) so I guess this might mean all bets are off. It still seems to me that the system would be unstable, however. Have you done the maths to show that small perturbations don't get magnified, but are damped down - i.e. that the circular orbit in your diagram is the ONLY stable configuration of the tronnies? (e.g. if some passing influence tried to move them slightly farther apart, they wouldn't spiral outwards.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
