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Lectures on Cosmology and Action at a Distance Electrodynamics
Author(s): Fred Hoyle (Author), Jayant V Narlikar (Author)
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
- Publication Date: 3 July 1996
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 148 pages
- ISBN-10: 981022558X
- ISBN-13: 9789810225582
Book Description
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.
