Once I made a calculation of the attraction between two charged particles that are moving together at a constant velocity relative to my frame of reference. I was pleasantly surprised to find that as the velocity of the two charges approached the speed of light, a perfect balance between the electric force and the magnetic force was achieved. This implied that there would be precisely zero electromagnetic force between the two and hence no acceleration either together or apart at the speed of light. This matches the special theory of relativity since at light speed the time dilation reaches infinity for the objects being viewed.
Since their time was slowed down to zero, they should not be seen as accelerating towards or away from each other. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Nigel Dyer <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Feb 15, 2014 3:08 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Velocity dependent model of Coulomb's law I may be being stupid here, but if you have two charged particles moving towards each other then can they not be thought of as generating magnetic fields, and that these magnetic fields would form the basis of an additional attraction alongside the column force. electric and magnetic fields differ only in their frame of reference. I could well imagine that there are multiple ways of showing this, including Burchells, and it may well be that this might be a better way of modelling it in some circumstances, but is his extra velocity term for the colomb attraction not just something that we are familiar with but under a different guise? Nigel On 15/02/2014 07:37, H Veeder wrote: He is certainly not the first person to formulate a velocity dependent version of Coulomb's law, but I think his formulation is the first to make use of a distinction between the velocity of approach and the velocity of recession. (If I have understood him correctly, it would mean if one was only interested in the force on an electron orbiting a proton in a perfectly circular orbit, the force would be described by the standard Coulomb's law since there would be no velocity of approach or recession.) He tries to explain gravity using his theory but he concedes that there still may be a significant portion of gravity which is not explained by his theory. http://www.alternativephysics.org/book/Gravity.htm Harry On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:40 PM, John Berry <[email protected]> wrote: It would make sense, a Doppler like effect is very reasonable with electric fields. Now if this is so, it is very possible that gravity could be explained this way. On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 7:09 PM, H Veeder <[email protected]> wrote: James Bowery and other vortex members, Today I learned about the the work of Bernard Burchell. He argues for a velocity dependent version of coulomb's law* In his model the coloumb force between two like charges increases when the charges are moving together and decreases when they are moving apart. The reverse is true for opposite charges. The revised law: F = {K(q1)(q2)/r^2} {1 + [(q1)(q2)(v1- v2)]/c}^3 He goes into more detail here: http://www.alternativephysics.org/book/RelativisticMass.htm This is just a small fraction of his work. He has many bold and wonderful ideas in his free on-line book. http://www.alternativephysics.org/ ----------------- * I made a similar proposal on vortex sometime ago although it was nothing more than an intuition and I only considered like charges: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg45063.html Harry
