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03-26-2005, 07:11 PM
Millikan's experiment

2 years ago I was prescribed Ziac to reduce blood cholesterol. But after I lose 35 lbs, my blood pressure becomes too low, I'm off Ziac. Now my diet consists of low fat meat, low carb and salad or as much seafood as I can afford and also bottled water.

Millikan, the famous experimentalist, did his monumental oil-drop experiment to measure the unit electric charge by assuming that the force of gravity is zero such that

F_E=F_B

in the symmetrical frame of the laboratory, this vector equation became just a scalar equation.

This scalar equation should apply to a photon, since a photon is not affected by gravity because its rest mass at low energy-low speed-weak gravity domain is practically zero. Inside a black hole (very strong gravity field), photon acquired mass due to its energy content as required by the mass-energy equivalence and Einstein field equations of general relativity.

Last edited by AntonioLao; 03-26-2005 at 07:20 PM. Reason: apply to photon
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