mburns's Journal: Superluminal Charges

I have already written on superluminal charges when understood as Kaluza-Klein effects. But the classical understanding becomes simply inconsistent when charges are superluminal. In my tutorial, I present a diagrammatic argument that light speed must exceed any possible speed of an accelerating charge, else a contradiction to the definition of the potential field of the charge is had. So a superluminal charge that accelerates thereby invokes the necessity of superluminal light. Diagram the potential field from a superluminal charge and see. Remember that the potential is actually a 1-form, and that anything other than a Lorentz gauge dishonors the function of the potential to preserve conservation of momentum for any test charge.

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Michael J. Burns