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| title = Commentary on Ritz's Electrodynamics | | title = Commentary on Ritz\'s Electrodynamics | ||
| url = [https://web.archive.org/web/20120910022527/http://www.datasync.com/~rsf1/ritz.htm Link to paper (Internet Archive)] | |||
| author = [[Robert S Fritzius]] | | author = [[Robert S Fritzius]] | ||
| keywords = [[Electrodynamics]], [[Ritz]] | | keywords = [[Electrodynamics]], [[Ritz]] | ||
| published = 1998 | | published = 1998 | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''Read the full paper''' [https://web.archive.org/web/20120910022527/http://www.datasync.com/~rsf1/ritz.htm here] ''(archived copy — the original link is no longer available)'' | |||
==Abstract== | ==Abstract== | ||
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| Scientific Paper | |
|---|---|
| Title | Commentary on Ritz\'s Electrodynamics |
| Read in full | Link to paper (Internet Archive) |
| Author(s) | Robert S Fritzius |
| Keywords | Electrodynamics, Ritz |
| Published | 1998 |
Read the full paper here (archived copy — the original link is no longer available)
Abstract
In 1908 Walter Ritz identified seven areas of difficulty with regard to the Maxwell-Lorentz electromagnetic field equations, which are based on the concept of a solid deformable ether.
- Electric and magnetic forces really express relations about space and time and should be replaced with non-instantaneous elementary actions (his emission theory).
- Advanced potentials don't exist (and their erroneous use led to the Rayleigh-Jeans ultraviolet catastrophe).
- Localization of energy in the ether is vague.
- It is impossible to reduce gravity to the same notions.
- The unacceptable inequality of action and reaction is brought about by the concept of absolute motion with respect to the ether.
- Apparent relativistic mass increase is amenable to a different interpretation.
- The use of absolute coordinates, independent of all motions of matter, requires throwing away the time honored use of Galilean relativity and our notions of rigid ponderable bodies.