Friday 2 November 2018

electromagnetism - What would happen if a charge could travel at $c$?



We know that an electron can move at sublight speed, but can we figure out what would happen if a charge moved at $c$, surfing the wave of the electric field it has produced? There does not seem to be anything that prohibits charged particles from moving at light speed. (If it sounds better, consider a Weyl fermion)


It would be pushed forward, repelled by its own field, but there are 2 possible scenarios depending on whether the speed of propagation of the wave can be exceeded or not.




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