Lectures on Cosmology and Action-At-A-Distance Electrodynamics (World Scientific Astronomy and Astrophysics) - Hardcover

Hoyle, Fred; Narlikar, Jayant V

 
9789810225582: Lectures on Cosmology and Action-At-A-Distance Electrodynamics (World Scientific Astronomy and Astrophysics)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 981022558X ISBN 13: 9789810225582
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 1996

Synopsis

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.

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Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Company
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
981022558X
ISBN 13 
9789810225582
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
148

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