The broad survey of alternate formulations of Maxwell's Law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations#Alternative_formulations
(which
I use in preference to Maxwell's Equation(s)) shows an interesting
pattern:
In every non-homogeneous formulation, the right hand side shows some
I've been thinking on potential fields again myself. So odd to think an
electrostatic scalar field could travel instantaneously, but there's some
argument for it, and seemingly some experimental evidence, and potentials
are WEIRD. Just look at Ahranov-Bohm Effect.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 8:38 PM,
I'm not at all convinced that the proper intuition of speed per electric
potential should be in terms of the speed of the propagation of electric
potential.
Having said that...
(2012) Experimental measurement of electric field propagation indicates
that it may be instantaneous:
Measuring
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