Re: energy and mass

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From	DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>
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nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) writes:
> As already noted else-thread photons do interact electromagnetically.
> (a purely QED effect)

Ah, ok.

>> (yeah, stupid question maybe, but I still find the answers aka
>> discussions interesting ;)
>
> What is 'stupid' is your need to conceptualise this as a force
> acting on a point particle.

I'm trying to move past my own ignorance ;-)

> The classical equivalent of it are extra, non-linear terms
> in Maxwell's equations.

I remember just barely passing that course in college, so many decades
ago...  TIL there's a version of Maxwell's equations that aren't
dependent on constant time.  Thank you!

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