Against dogma: on superluminal propagation in classical electromagnetism

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.08.005zbMath1302.83010arXiv1409.1164OpenAlexW1968233216MaRDI QIDQ484981

James Owen Weatherall

Publication date: 8 January 2015

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.1164

zbMATH Keywords

special relativityelectromagnetismGordon metricsuperluminal propagation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Special relativity (83A05) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Physics (00A79)

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