In reply to Eric Walker's message of Sun, 23 Jun 2013 15:36:17 -0700: Hi, [snip] >On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 3:30 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >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. >> > >What about when Coulomb's law and a resulting drop-off in electrostatic >influence on the basis of distance is factored in? In that case I wouldn't >you see the usual d+d branches (e.g., t+p)?
...so what is the boundary condition? I.e. when does it happen, and when not? How strong does the force have to be? Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
