XPost: sci.physics.relativity   
   From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl   
      
   DJ Delorie  wrote:   
      
   > nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) writes:   
   > > As already noted else-thread photons do interact electromagnetically.   
   > > (a purely QED effect)   
   >   
   > Ah, ok.   
   >   
   > >> (yeah, stupid question maybe, but I still find the answers aka   
   > >> discussions interesting ;)   
   > >   
   > > What is 'stupid' is your need to conceptualise this as a force   
   > > acting on a point particle.   
   >   
   > I'm trying to move past my own ignorance ;-)   
   >   
   > > The classical equivalent of it are extra, non-linear terms   
   > > in Maxwell's equations.   
   >   
   > I remember just barely passing that course in college, so many decades   
   > ago...  TIL there's a version of Maxwell's equations that aren't   
   > dependent on constant time.  Thank you!   
      
   Maxwell's equations are fully relativistic,   
      
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