A very good question that involves the issue of "self-energy" and/or "effective mass" of electrons in plasmas and currents.
A contentious issue. I am looking for papers on scattering experiments that elucidate this - especially involving ballistic currents or plasmons in nanostructures. Jojo Jaro wrote: > A follow up question for the group - more like a follow up wild > speculation. > > Do you think there is merit in the idea that a huge Electrostatic field > induced by a huge accumulated charge would somehow affect Electromagnetic > radiation like photons (gammas) and somehow split it into its quasi > particles. Maybe one carrying the electro force and the other the > magnetic force. When so affected, the energy would then thermalize and > dissipate as heat instead of as penetrating radiation. > > This is a wild speculation and has no basis in what I have read or what I > have understood. It seems to me that if an electron can be split into its > quasiparticles - Holon, chargon and spinon, a photon might be amendable to > such similar properties. > > Have you come across something similar to this idea? > > > Jojo > > >
