[QuantumClue]

There's a book called "why does E =MC2?"
I commend it to you.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Does-mc2-Should-Care/dp/0306817586

(other textbooks are available)

It an ''ok'' book. I'd prefer the OP to read E=Mc^2 by David (forget the second name). Very good book. More impressed with it than the other one by Brian Cox.

[peppercorn]

Funny how things unexpectedly shrink away to nothing - Posts, I mean of course []

[QuantumClue]

Funny how things unexpectedly shrink away to nothing - Posts, I mean of course []

Slightly.

Expecting it to happen to mine too.

[JP]

This question, and a lot of the questions you're asking on the forum, could be easily answered if you read some textbooks on physics or chemistry, or if you were willing to listen to explanations from those who have studied those subjects.  However, you don't seem willing to do so.

Answered?? ..... certainly not;- Incidentally, I can be insanely enthusiastic, with attention focus a-go-go, but only if the advice has some concrete reasoning, and this is so astoundingly not happening here.  [:I]

You're too brilliant to learn from a textbook and yet you consistently get fundamental things wrong in your explanations?  The question you're asking here can be answered easily, but to get at the "why" of them, you need to understand some basic physics.  Unless someone has the time to teach you basic mechanics and relativity over the forum, your best bet to get that competency is to read some books.

I've been looking for an excuse to post this for a while, so here's Feynman on why certain things are hard to explain, especially when you lack the fundamentals:

[peppercorn]

The question you're asking here can be answered easily, but to get at the "why" of them, you need to understand some basic physics.  Unless someone has the time to teach you basic mechanics and relativity over the forum, your best bet to get that competency is to read some books.

I've been looking for an excuse to post this for a while, so here's Feynman on why certain things are hard to explain, especially when you lack the fundamentals:

At this stage I would really like one of those 'good answer' buttons that some other forums employ. Really nice video link BTW!

[5nutjob (OP)]

This question, and a lot of the questions you're asking on the forum, could be easily answered if you read some textbooks on physics or chemistry, or if you were willing to listen to explanations from those who have studied those subjects.  However, you don't seem willing to do so.

Answered?? ..... certainly not;- Incidentally, I can be insanely enthusiastic, with attention focus a-go-go, but only if the advice has some concrete reasoning, and this is so astoundingly not happening here.  [:I]

You're too brilliant to learn from a textbook and yet you consistently get fundamental things wrong in your explanations?  The question you're asking here can be answered easily, but to get at the "why" of them, you need to understand some basic physics.  Unless someone has the time to teach you basic mechanics and relativity over the forum, your best bet to get that competency is to read some books.

I've been looking for an excuse to post this for a while, so here's Feynman on why certain things are hard to explain, especially when you lack the fundamentals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwUL

I'd much prefer to lack the essential basics, than to example psychotic clowns, as a basis for arguement;- dear, oh dear father of extreme non-retardism!
 
 Exhibit A; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKTSaezB4p8?  [:I]

[JP]

3rd option it is, then!

[5nutjob (OP)]

Hey, thought up a way of proving/disproving my concept, by means of a modified Cathode Ray Tube .....  [] Particle pairs (e-/e+) can be created from > 1.02 MeV gamma photon interaction with matter, right? - So, like, Cobalt 60 produces these in veritable abundance. If I'm correct;- by deflecting electrons onto a screen, the positrons will also be deflected; therefore, the Lorentz force will be duplicated, as it will be seen to be acting on both particles.


See my totally outstanding sketch here;-
 http://img338.imageshack.us/i/modifiedcrt.jpg/  []

[Bored chemist]

If you had, as various people suggested, done some basic reading you would know that a magnetic field deflects electrons, but doesn't do any work on them because the force is perpendicular to the movement.

So your comment about "...thus proving work done on an electron..." isn't true.