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Originally Posted by johndowe
Hi there.
I am NOT a phycisist, i AM however an electronic technician i specialize in PC's, havent touched a soldering iron i over 20 years, but high very electric charges in the million of electron volt, the electric charge was said to make the electron's mass insignificant compared to it's electric charge and could thus travel faster then light.
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You can't use every day experiences to determine what will happen at speeds approaching light. When an electron approaches the speed of light, it's tiny insignificant mass will be multiplied by the Lorenz Factor (referred to as gamma):
gamma = 1/(sqrt(1-v^2/c^2))
where c is the speed of light, and v is velocity.
i.e., if v = 99.999999% of the speed of light, then the electron's mass would be about 7000 times it's normal mass.
if v = the speed of light, then it's mass goes up to infinity. That's a no no.
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Originally Posted by johndowe
About the little grey guys, only saw them 3 times...
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uh... yeah.
08-20-2009
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