Re: Question About Charged Particles.

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 08:43 4/8/01 -0500, Jack Uretsky wrote:
>        I do not wish to be listened to as though I am some sort of a
> "guru" uttering "truths".  As far as I am concerned, the "voice of
> authority" has no place in the study of physics.
/snip/
>                                Regards,
>                                        Jack


In the spirit of deriving a quiet amusement at efforts to produce
theories which couple mass and charge, I found the following passage
wonderfully interesting:

"In this expression, the essential role played by the so-called "arbitrary"
gauge function is clear. It is the variable conjugate to the electric
charge, in the same way as position, time and angle are conjugate
variables of momentum, energy and angular momentum (respectively) in
the expressions for the action and/or the quantum phase of a free
particle, q = (px - Et + sj). Our knowledge of
what are energy, momentum and angular momentum comes from our understanding
of the nature of space, time, angles and their symmetry, via
Noether's theorem. Conversely, the fact that we still do
not really know what is an electric charge despite all the development
of gauge theories, comes, in our point of view, from the fact that the
gauge function c is considered devoid of physical meaning.

L. Nottale

Refs:
  Nottale, L., 1994, invited conference in "Relativity in General",
(Spanish Relativity Meeting'93), Salas, Eds. J. Diaz Alonso and
 M. Lorente Paramo (Frontières), p.121-132.

"Scale-Relativity: First Steps toward a Field Theory".



 Nottale, L., 1996, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 7, 877-938

"Scale Relativity and Fractal Space-Time: Application to Quantum
Physics, Cosmology and Chaotic systems".

brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>  Altus OK
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