Why Does an Accelerated Charge Emit Photons and Lose Energy?

[deep838]

My days in high school are almost at an end and I don't want to run to my teachers with this question.
So can someone please explain this to me: why an accelerated charge emits photons and loses energy?
Links and references are also welcome. Thanks in advance.

 

[jtbell]

This radiation is present in classical electrodynamics also. Google for "Larmor formula".

 

[deep838]

This radiation is present in classical electrodynamics also. Google for "Larmor formula".

Ok...that went way over my head! I haven't learned electrodynamics yet! So could you kindly explain what is happening without equations?

 

[A.T.]

Ok...that went way over my head! I haven't learned electrodynamics yet! So could you kindly explain what is happening without equations?

Here is a nice animation:
http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~teviet/Waves/empulse.html

Here more pictures:
http://physics.tamuk.edu/~suson/html/4323/photons.html#Electromagnetic Radiation from Charge

 

[deep838]

thanx a lot! that gave me explanations to a lot of "untold stories". i admit that i need to pursue a little more of this to understand the full explanation with maths... but still, something, is much much better than nothing.
:D

 

[deep838]

one more question... will a moving charge be influenced by the field it creates?