Talk:Unruh effect
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Question: The last sentence, about testing the effect, mentions accelerating a particle to 10^26 m/s^2. How does that work? The only way I can figure is to keep oscillating its speed, since after the first second of uniform acceleration it would exceed lightspeed.
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- The acceleration is measured in the rest frame of the accelerating particle. Measured from an inertial frame, the acceleration would get smaller and smaller as the apparent mass of the particle increses with speed. If you have access to a physics library, check out the section on "hyperbolic motion" in Misner, Thorne and Wheeler's Gravitation; you can also look at Rindler's book Relativity: Special, General and Cosmological (renamed simply Relativity for the second edition). I would also recomend Taylor and Wheeler's Special Relativity. — Miguel 21:41, 2004 Dec 9 (UTC)
- If I don't mix things up, we are talking about very short periods of accelaration, e.g. by using the electromagnetic field of laser light: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/slac/media-info/20000605/chen.html --Pjacobi 21:07, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Edits Those last two "anon" edits (23 Oct 2005) were by me. Login-related Wikiglitches ( :( ) ErkDemon 20:13, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
I have a feeling this article would be really interesting if it was written in English. --61.214.155.14 04:41, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- This is as close to English as it's really possible to get. The first paragraph of the overview gives a pretty good layman's overview, and the rest of the introduction adds on detail incrementally. I can't completely follow the final parts of it, but I seriously doubt there's _any_ way to explain the detailed mechanism that doesn't require me to learn about the terms being used. The qualitative effect is covered in the first paragraph ("if you accelerate, it looks like space is filled with a warm gas instead of empty"), with no additional explanation needed.
- If you can think of a better way this should be organized, by all means propose it here. --Christopher Thomas 05:09, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
