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The Significance of Maxwell's Equations

Author:

Tombe, Frederick David

Category:

Essays

Sub-Category:

Mechanics / Electrodynamics

Language:

English

Date Published:

April 29, 2019

File:

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Downloads:

9398

Keywords:

aether, rotating electron-positron dipoles, centrifugal force, Maxwell's equations, Einstein's theories of relativity, Lorentz force,vorticity, gravity, electron-positron sea, electric fluid, electromagnetism

Abstract:

James Clerk Maxwell is credited with having brought electricity, magnetism, and optical phenomena, together into one unified theory. The details of what exactly he did were however seriously distorted in twentieth century physics textbooks. Maxwell is most famous in connection with a set of equations which bear his name, but these equations have been totally removed from the physical context within which Maxwell was working, and outside of that physical context the full meaning of these equations is lost. Maxwell was working within the context of a sea of tiny aethereal vortices pressing against each other with centrifugal force. The centrifugal force bit was crucial for explaining magnetic repulsion, yet both centrifugal force and aether are stringently denied by modern physicists who nevertheless continue to hail Maxwell for the equations that he derived by using these very concepts which they deny. This irony seems to be explained at least in part because they think that the equations can be re- derived using Einstein’s special theory of relativity. Such an erroneous belief stems from the fact that one of the most important of Maxwell’s equations has been wrongly credited to Lorentz and referred to as the Lorentz force law and treated as ‘supplementary’ to Maxwell’s equations.