First-Order Modification of Maxwell's Equations: Difference between revisions

Scientific Paper
Title	First-Order Modification of Maxwell\'s Equations
Author(s)	Thomas E Phipps, Harold W Milnes
Keywords	Maxwell's Equations
Published	1983
Journal	The Toth-Maatian Review
Volume	1
Number	1
Pages	54-59

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 {{Infobox paper
 | title = First-Order Modification of Maxwell\'s Equations
-| author = [[Thomas E Phipps]]
+| author = [[Thomas E Phipps]], [[Harold W Milnes]]
 | keywords = [[Maxwell's Equations]]
 | published = 1983
-| journal = [[Journal of Classical Physics]]
+| journal = [[The Toth-Maatian Review]]
-| volume = [[2]]
+| volume = [[1]]
 | number = [[1]]
-| pages = 1-22
+| pages = 54-59
 }}
 ==Abstract==
-Attention is called to the remarkable fact that, relative to the observer, Maxwell's equations allow field-source motions but not field-sink motions.&nbsp; These equations thus implicitly refer to a "preferred observer."&nbsp; On correcting this unwarranted suppresssion of instrumental degrees of freedom, we obtain generalized equations for electromagnetism that (at first order in detector velocity) prove to be Galilean invariant.&nbsp; The extra parameters needed to describe filed-detector motions enter the wave equation and spoil the spherical symmetry of radiation propagation, so our previous "acausal" hypothesis of radiation convection by the absorber, in conjunction with physical non-occurrence of the Lorentz contraction, - receives independent confirmation.&nbsp; Higher-order correction to Maxwell's equations are also discussed.&nbsp; Experimental testing of the radiation convection hypothesis becomes imperative and should be feasible in view of the first-order nature of the effect.&nbsp;Convection is defined as something that occurs at the locus of each detector - a 'pulling along of the wave by the detectors.[[Category:Scientific Paper]]
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