Do you have a valid reference that suggest this? Or is it personal speculation...?Ahmed1029 said:I have some faint idea that this will cause photons to have non-zero rest mass
No, a physics professor told me so but I'm not so sure.berkeman said:Do you have a valid reference that suggest this? Or is it personal speculation...?
I'm mainly curious whether SR necessitates that charge is conserved.berkeman said:Do you have a valid reference that suggest this? Or is it personal speculation...?
But you are not in school; you are self-studying. Where did you happen to have a technical discussion with a university physics professor?Ahmed1029 said:No, a physics professor told me so but I'm not so sure.
Ahmed1029 said:I'm learning physics on my own.
A website just like this oneberkeman said:But you are not in school; you are self-studying. Where did you happen to have a technical discussion with a university physics professor?
Also as an aside, I'm actually in school; I'm a medical student but physics is my side gig, so I can visit other departments if I want to. I however found the internet more helpful.berkeman said:But you are not in school; you are self-studying. Where did you happen to have a technical discussion with a university physics professor?
SR in itself is not a theory of electromagnetism, so this question is unanswerable.Ahmed1029 said:I'm mainly curious whether SR necessitates that charge is conserved.
Charge conservation is a fundamental principle in physics that states that the total electric charge in a closed system remains constant over time. This means that charge cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred from one object to another.
In special relativity, the laws of physics are the same for all observers in uniform motion. This means that charge conservation must hold true for all observers, regardless of their relative motion. This is known as the principle of charge conservation invariance.
According to Einstein's famous equation, E=mc², mass and energy are equivalent. However, charge is not directly related to mass or energy, so it cannot be converted into either. Charge conservation still holds true, even in situations involving high energies and relativistic speeds.
So far, there is no evidence to suggest that charge conservation is violated in any situations. In fact, it has been tested and confirmed in numerous experiments, including those involving high-energy particle collisions.
Charge conservation plays a crucial role in determining the behavior of charged particles. For example, if an electrically neutral particle decays into two charged particles, the total charge of the system must remain zero. This means that the two particles must have equal and opposite charges to conserve the total charge of the system.