Timeline for Causality in a gedanken experiment on the hydrogen atom
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| Feb 2, 2013 at 3:00 | review | Community Evaluations | |||
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| Dec 18, 2012 at 16:07 | comment | added | John Rennie | @PhHEP - John Baez discusses this in math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Quantum/virtual_particles.html but even he doesn't manage a clear pop-science explanation. I'm not sure there is a easy way to understand it. | |
| Dec 18, 2012 at 14:07 | answer | added | Vladimir Kalitvianski | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 18, 2012 at 12:30 | answer | added | anna v | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 18, 2012 at 11:05 | comment | added | PhHEP | Yes, John Rennie. The question can effectively be reduced to that. | |
| Dec 18, 2012 at 10:58 | comment | added | John Rennie | It seems to me you are asking why the EM force is transmitted at $c$ when virtual photons can move faster than $c$. Is this a fair simplification of your question? | |
| Dec 18, 2012 at 10:56 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Dec 18, 2012 at 10:13 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 18, 2012 at 10:10 | comment | added | emarti | A small detail: It's easy to get unphysical results when thinking experiments where charge can 'vanish'. In particular, you've just created monopole radiation. | |
| Dec 18, 2012 at 10:03 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Dec 18, 2012 at 9:52 | history | asked | PhHEP | CC BY-SA 3.0 |