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{{Infobox paper
| title = Neo-Hertzian Wave Equation and Aberration
| author = [[Thomas E Phipps]]
| keywords = [[Maxwell's equations]], [[time derivatives]], [[covariant]]
| published = 1994
| journal = [[Galilean Electrodynamics]]
| volume = [[5]]
| number = [[3]]
| pages = 46-54
}}

==Abstract==

Heinrich Hertz developed a covering theory of Maxwell's equations that was Galilean invariant - i.e., first-order invariant, not covariant.&nbsp; This was accomplished by replacing Maxwell's partial time derivatives with total (complete) time derivatives, while leaving the spatial partial derivatives unaltered.&nbsp; To proceed to high-order approximations, frame time is replaced by field detector proper time.&nbsp; The resulting "neo-Hertzian" wave equation is solved in three dimensions by the method of d'Alembert.&nbsp; The solution is shown to give an account of aberration, based on a 3-vector invariance, that is simpler and less beset with equivocations than that offered by the established 4-vector covariant formalism.&nbsp; The 4-vectors seem to be fighting the physics every step of the way - and, were it not for their friends, losing.[[Category:Scientific Paper]]