In reply to David Roberson's message of Sun, 23 Jun 2013 17:37:39 -0400 (EDT): Hi,
The problem I have with this is that it would allow any energy liberating mechanism (even chemical reactions) to result in a particle simply "taking off" with the momentum later to be passed to some other particle somewhere else (potentially anywhere), after light has had a chance to reach it. We don't see this happen. >Robin, > > >I do not see a problem with what Eric is suggesting. Regardless of how many >charges and moving charges reside in the universe, only the net vector fields >due to all of them is present at the location of the D reactions. The >superposition of all of the individual fields results in one final value that >interacts. The various vectors of the total could arise far away from the D >site, but their levels would drop off very fast with distance so only the >nearest ones would generally dominate. > > >For example, the total magnetic field vector at a point determines how a >moving charged particle's path is curved at that point. The potentially far >off source of that field does not have to get information about the movement >of that particle before the force is felt. This type of thought fits into the >concept that local time is what counts for a reference frame. Distance makes >the local times different between the "friend" nucleus and the interacting D's. > > >If you follow up on the momentum and energy pulses detected by the "friends" >nearby, then they would not see any reaction forces until the time required >for light speed fields to reach them. After that period has elapsed, they >would be subject to potentially large dynamic forces. > > >Dave [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
