464 pages 9x6 inches
Feb. 2004 Hardcover
ISBN 1-58949-036-3
US$118

 
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This volume offers a forum where arguments for modification and extension of the standard Maxwell's approach are presented. The contributors have been selected for their ability to provide a novel and mathematically rigorous insight on deeply rooted difficulties of classical electrodynamics. Among 28 essays is the last work of recently deceased Prof. Prigogin, a 1977 Nobel Prize Winner. The primary audience is physicists and other scientists who seriously look into fundamental difficulties in existing theories.

 

 1. ROLE OF NONINTEGRABILITY IN RADIATION DAMPING
         I. Prigogin, T. Petrosky and E. Karpov
2. WHAT IS THE PHYSICAL NATURE OF ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FORCES?
        O. Jefimenko
3. SINGULAR SOURCES OF MAXWELL FIELDS WITH SELF-QUANTIZED ELECTRIC CHARGE
        V. Kassandrov
4. VIRIAL THEOREM FOR WEBER'S LAW
        R. Mendes, L. Malacarne and A. Assis
5. ON THE ELECTRODYNAMICS WITH FASTER-THAN-LIGHT
        G. Kotelnikov
6. A REGULAR THEORY OF MAGNETIC MONOPOLES AND ITS IMPLICATIONS
        E. Comay
7. MAXWELL VACUUM, THE FOURTH HEISENBERG UNCERTAINTY RELATION AND SPACE-TIME METRIC FLUCTUATION
        S. Roy, M. Roy and M. Kafatos
8. ELECTRODYNAMICS: ACTION-AT-NO-DISTANCE?
        A. Kracklauer and P. Kracklauer
9. CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS VS CLASSICAL MECHANICS: SIMPLE SOLUTION TO HUNDRED YEARS OLD PUZZLES
        A. Harpaz and N. Soker
10. ON AN ADDITIONAL MAGNETIC FORCE PRESENT IN A SYSTEM OF COAXIAL SOLENOIDS
        V. Onoochin and T. Phipps, Jr
11. IS CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS AN INTERNALLY INCONSISTENT THEORY?
        J. Heras
12. FARADAY INDUCTION LAW, EINSTEIN'S RELATIVITY PRINCIPLE AND THOMAS-WIGNER ROTATION
        A. Kholmetskii
13. A NEO-CARTESIAN APPROACH TO ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCE
        H. Munera
14. WHEN FOUR-SPACE FALLS APART
        T. E. Phipps, Jr
15. A GENERALISATION OF CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS FOR THE PREDICATION OF SCALAR FIELD EFFECTS
        K. van Vlaenderen		 16. TEST OF THE FARADAY LAW, THE VIOLATION OF MECHANICAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM AND THE ELECTRODYNAMICS CONTROVERSY
        G. Spavieri, L. Nieves, M. Rodriguez and G.Gillies
17. THE INTERFACE BETWEEN CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS AND QUANTUM THEORY
        B. Sidharth
18. A TOPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OF ELECTROMAGNETISM
        R. Kiehn
19. A MASSLESS CLASSICAL ELECTRON
        M. Ibison
20. CLASSICAL ELECTROMAGNETISM AS A TIME DELAYED CHARGED PARTICLE INTERACTION
        A. Widom, Y.N. Srivastava and S. Sivasubramanian
21. POSSIBLE OBSERVATION OF A SECOND KIND OF LIGHT
        R. Kuhne
22. THE PHI-WAVE AETHER
        C. Thompson
23. A CLASSICAL POINT CHARGE SPONTANEOUSLY FREE OF SINGULAR SELF ACTION
        M. Ibison
24. EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE IN CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS
        B. Iliev
25. INTERPRETATION OF AHARONOV-CASHER PHASE SHIFT DUE TO A NEW VECTOR POTENTIAL
        O. Yamashita
26. INFORMATIONAL FIELD AND SUPERLUMINAL COMMUNICATION
        V. Oleinik
27. ELECTRODYNAMICS IN AN UNIFORMLY ACCELERATED FRAME:
A NEW METHOD OF DERIVING EQUATIONS OF MOTION FROM FIELD EQUATIONS
        J. Kijowski and M. Koscielecki
28. IS THE CLASSICAL THEORY OF FIELDS COMPLETE AND CONSISTENT MATHEMATICALLY?
        R. Smirnov-Rueda