How about a truly tough Physics question then?

[s2art]

OK, given that accelerated electric charges (such as an electron) will emit electromagnetic radiation, then given the equivalence principle why dont all objects on earth emit radiation (sitting in gravitational field should be equivalent to feeling an acceleration)?

Sort that one out!

[Raffles]

Everything does give out radiation, you, me, them, everything. That's how carbon dating etc works...

[love machine]

Constant speed things have no energy being applied to them, hence no excess to lose, am I right?

[s2art]

love machine said:

Constant speed things have no energy being applied to them, hence no excess to lose, am I right?

Yes, but I still cant see why the equivalence principle doesnt apply. Thats whats bugging me.

[love machine]

I think it's got something to do with plancs constant and how big stuff is and what the speeds are. I think in order to get a nice fat registerable photon out of a decellerating particle, you are dealing with something weeny going from absolute buggery to virtually all.

It's similar to asking what diffraction pattern would a human make. Due to M being huge, F would be huge as well (freq) so you'd need a fine diffraction grating to produce an interference pattern. So, in a world where plancs constant was different, bigger objects may have lower frequencies and observable photon effects due to velocity changes!