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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 19:23:39 -0600
From: brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Subject: Re: A maximum possible acceleration?
It is easy to discount the kinds of electric field which motivate
mechanical force, because at some point a macroscopic object will be
squashed if the acceleration is too great; the force needing to spread
over a wider area of application until a rather thin layer, perhaps
a monatomic layer is the limit.
So then I consider the force that impels particles in an accelerator.
In a one-pass arrangement, there is some limiting value of electric
field which can be arranged; the vacuum breaking down (or permitting
ionization or plasma production ) in the limit.
And so I am finally left with the force of gravity, which it appears
may be multiplied without limit and which would provide an arbitrarily
large acceleration to a particle approaching a hole of sufficient mass.