A Revised Electromagnetic Theory with Fundamental Applications

A Revised Electromagnetic Theory with Fundamental Applications

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English | ISBN: 9185917001 | 159 pages | PDF | 2008 | 3.52 Mb

Maxwell’s equations in the vacuum state have served as a guideline and basis in the development of quantum electrodynamics (QED). As pointed out by Feynman, however, there are important areas within which conventional electromagnetic theory and its combination with quantum mechanics does not provide fully adequate descriptions of physical reality. These difficulties are not removed by and are not directly associated with quantum mechanics. Instead electromagnetic field theory is a far from completed area of research, and QED will also become subject to the typical shortcomings of such a theory in its conventional form. As a consequence, modified theories leading beyond Maxwell’s equations have been elaborated by several authors. Among these there is one approach which becomes the main subject of this treatise, as well as of its relation to other concepts. The underlying ideas originate from some speculations in the late 1960s, and a revised theory has then been gradually developed. An effort is made here to collect the various parts of the theory into one systematic entity.