On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:52 PM, David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote:
Speed them up to nearly the speed of light and my calculation is that they > do not attract or repel each other. > Note that the drift velocity of electrons moving through a conductor such as a wire is generally quite slow. One calculation estimates that an electron in a copper wire of 1m length and 1mm in diameter moving under 3 amps of current migrates at a rate of 1m per hour [1]. So the relativistic example will probably need to be in a superconductor (?) or in an accelerator or pulsar jet or something similar. Eric [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drift_velocity#Numerical_example
