Re: strings near the speed of light

From: Mike (no..spam_at_please.com)
Date: 09/01/04 

Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:41:22 GMT

"tadchem" <tadchemNOSPAM@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> "Mike" <no..spam@please.com> wrote in message
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> > They consider the quanta of the gravity of general relativity to be the
> > graviton. But I am not aware of any quanta used for Special relativity.
>
> Special Relativity is a "special case." It is basically a pedagogical
> device used to explain basic concepts and principles, much like the
> legendary "point mass," "spherical body," and "infinite line." SR is
> relativity as considered in the absence of gravitational interactions - a
> useful device as it allows handling the physics in terms of Euclidean
> geometry.
> ...snip

Thanks for the reply, but I seem to have missed how it applies my problem.

In the mean time, I consider whether in order for a string to increase speed
it must accelerate and whether that means it interacts with particles that
give it more energy in the process. Perhaps photons (or perhaps gravitons?)
interact with string/particles to give it more energy as it speeds up. I'm
thinking this may mean that the frequency of a string would increase due to
the interactions that increase its speed. But this increased frequency would
appear to be slower than expected due to special relativistic effect, so
that the end result would be that the frequency of a string would at least
appear to be invariant with speed and the special relativistic effects are
nullified. This is a question.

But then again, each interaction that increased the speed of a
string/particle would give it a small enough increase that it would seem as
though the average effect of these interactions has a linear effect with
respect to speed. Yet the appearance of SR is non-linear with speed. So
maybe this proves that the above scenario is wrong.

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