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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: What's the paradox involving two moving parallel electrons?
« on: 24/08/2016 20:43:36 »
It's an old topic, but maybe someone will answer.
So everybody here said that electrons will move apart and blamed that on special relativity as those two electrons would be standing still in their frame of reference. But, how would you explain the phenomen that two wires carrying current in the same direction don't repel but attract each other? Electrons in that wire would be traveling at same speeds (ofcourse not exactly because of brown movement, but this can be ignored for time being) so their frame of reference would also point out that they are standing still compared to each other.
So everybody here said that electrons will move apart and blamed that on special relativity as those two electrons would be standing still in their frame of reference. But, how would you explain the phenomen that two wires carrying current in the same direction don't repel but attract each other? Electrons in that wire would be traveling at same speeds (ofcourse not exactly because of brown movement, but this can be ignored for time being) so their frame of reference would also point out that they are standing still compared to each other.