World Scientific Series In Astronomy And Astrophysics
Jayant V Narlikar · K S Krishna Swamy · Arvind Bhatnagar · Fred Hoyle · Ludwik M Celnikier · Maria Lugaro · Pranab Ghosh · S K Alurkar · Thanu Padmanabhan · William Livingston
Latest release: March 22, 2012
Atomic & Molecular · Astrophysics · Meteorology & Climatology
Series
11
Books
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This book describes the subject of electrodynamics at classical as well as quantum level, developed as an interaction at a distance. Thus it has electric charges interacting with one another directly and not through the medium of a field. In general such an interaction travels forward and backward in time symmetrically, thus apparently violating the principle of causality. It turns out, however, that in such a description the cosmological boundary conditions become very important. The theory therefore works only in a cosmology with the right boundary conditions; but when it does work it is free from the divergences that plague a quantum field theory.
