In reply to David Roberson's message of Sat, 9 Aug 2014 13:15:37 -0400 (EDT): Hi, >That is the model that I try to understand Axil. But I do not believe that an >isolated single moving particle can emit thermal energy directly.
...unless it happens to be in a magnetic field, in which case it can emit cyclotron radiation. > A free proton moving uniformly in space has a relative velocity to every > observer except one at rest to it. It therefore can not emit thermal energy > in the form of IR without the interaction of other particles around it. The > infrared photons contain energy that once existed as kinetic energy(thermal) > of the system of particles. Gravitational energy, of course, can end up as > photon energy when a cloud of hydrogen gas and dust condenses. > >Dave [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html