I would like to respond to your reply at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18846249 and I was going to use among other things the example of an electron in a uniform magnetic field. So I was totally surprised when I read this comment already mentioning
> ... "What happens if I put an electron in a uniform magnetic field?" ...
Either 1) this is pure coincidence (and you are contrasting the difficulty of the 2 electrons compared to the "simpler" electron in a magnetic field), or 2) you are referencing a certain 'issue' or puzzle about the electron in a uniform magnetiic field?
Could you clarify if it is 1) or 2) or something else? and if 2) clarify the puzzling issue regarding the "electron in a unifoorm magnetic field"?
Then I will feel more comfortable answering the other comment you made, so I can clarify my earlier reply to you :)
It's fundamentally the same issue, and the same difficulty.
The reason I mentioned 2 charges orbiting around each other is to avoid getting into a discussion about the uniform magnetic field, and that maybe the extra radiation energy is just coming from the uniform magnetic field, and that energy is still conserved because the total energy was infinite to begin with.
> ... "What happens if I put an electron in a uniform magnetic field?" ...
Either 1) this is pure coincidence (and you are contrasting the difficulty of the 2 electrons compared to the "simpler" electron in a magnetic field), or 2) you are referencing a certain 'issue' or puzzle about the electron in a uniform magnetiic field?
Could you clarify if it is 1) or 2) or something else? and if 2) clarify the puzzling issue regarding the "electron in a unifoorm magnetic field"?
Then I will feel more comfortable answering the other comment you made, so I can clarify my earlier reply to you :)