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no effect found - 04-12-2005, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by iseason
this would mean that objects could also affect each other... an object here on earth would feel the gravity of every particle in the universe...
The problem is none of these effects can be found. Let say we have two objects of equal mass m and equal charge q, the force from mass is F=ma, where a is the acceleration and the force from charge is q\mathbf{E}+q\mathbf{v}\times\mathbf{B}. When these two forces are equal, the best we can do is to define an acceleration. And constancy of the speed of light implies that this acceleration is identically zero.

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