Gomori, Marton and Szabo, Laszlo E. (2014) How to Move an Electromagnetic Field? [Preprint]
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The special relativity principle presupposes that the states of the physical system concerned can be meaningfully characterized, at least locally, as such in which the system is at rest or in motion with some velocity relative to an arbitrary frame of reference. In the first part of the paper we show that electrodynamic systems, in general, do not satisfy this condition. In the second part of the paper we argue that exatly the same condition serves as a necessary condition for the persistence of an extended physical object. As a consequence, we argue, electromagnetic field strengths cannot be the individuating properties of electromagnetic field---contrary to the standard realistic interpretation of CED. In other words, CED is ontologically incomplete.
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| Keywords: | relativity principle covariance Maxwell--Lorentz motion persistence extended physical object classical electrodynamics | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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| Depositing User: | Prof. Laszlo E. Szabo | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jun 2014 14:24 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 18 Jun 2014 14:24 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 10755 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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| Date: | 15 June 2014 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10755 |
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