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em3ry
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A thought experiment:
A electron is moving in a straight line at velocity v. It instantly stops dead. It doesn't move another femtometer.
Obviously its magnetic field collapses and produces light. What is the waveform of the light produced?
Is it something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_delta_function
But then again it will take time for the magnetic field to collapse. Hmm.
A electron is moving in a straight line at velocity v. It instantly stops dead. It doesn't move another femtometer.
Obviously its magnetic field collapses and produces light. What is the waveform of the light produced?
Is it something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_delta_function
But then again it will take time for the magnetic field to collapse. Hmm.