Actually, now that I've read Russell's latest comment, I'd like to add something to my 3rd question. It appears that the "Coulomb force" itself propagates at lightspeed, which is how the tronnies manage to repel themselves - they effectively outrun their own radiation, and "see" a ghost tronnie on the opposite side of the circle, which is actually themselves (there is a name for this manoeuvre from "Star Trek", but I can't remember what it is).
So the CF itself moves at c. Is that force carried by particles, or if not, what? And why is it limited to c when tronnies can move FTL? -- 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.
