Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: RightWhale
Stupid question department:

If I have a charge being conducted through a rotating superconductor, is there a rotational speed at which that charge is actually static?

14 posted on 03/25/2006 11:54:29 AM PST by lafroste (gravity is not a force. See my profile to read my novel absolutely free (I know, beyond shameless))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]


To: lafroste

Try it. Faraday would set it up and see what happened. Sometimes there are surprises.


17 posted on 03/25/2006 11:58:57 AM PST by RightWhale (pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies ]

To: lafroste
If I have a charge being conducted through a rotating superconductor, is there a rotational speed at which that charge is actually static?

Not according to Einstein's theory of relatively. Light- electromagnetism always moves at a constant speed. No object can "catch up" to a photon and hold it.

That's where things get weird. Our conceptions of 3 dimensional space are a reliable construct in a slow moving world. When velocities increase space and time change, e.g. time dilation and the Lorentz contraction.

At high speed we live in a sci fi universe.

21 posted on 03/25/2006 12:06:57 PM PST by Maynerd
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson