As one might imagine, the behavior of electrons which approach or exceed the speed of light in water is likely to be affected by the size of the spacetime constant… Click to show full abstract
As one might imagine, the behavior of electrons which approach or exceed the speed of light in water is likely to be affected by the size of the spacetime constant c (literally the number of meters in a second) commonly called "lightspeed". For instance the free-particle dispersion relation (e.g. temporal-frequency versus wavenumber), plotted as kinetic energy K versus momentum p for a given mass, would according to Newton have been a straight line on a log-log plot with slope α = 2 of the form K = p 2 /(2m). For any given value of p, all values of K would have been possible.
               
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