The dangers of heuristic reasoning

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I've seen this done before in slightly different (unpublished) context, and the result is pretty obvious upon close inspection. Its still a pretty good assumption, as the factor gamma and w differ in extreme cases by factors of only 3/2's for strong fields.
 

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