Lectures on Cosmology and Action-At-A-Distance Electrodynamics

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.

Author: Fred Hoyle, Jayant V. Narlikar
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: 07/03/1996
Pages: 148
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.05w x 0.36d
ISBN13: 9789810225735
ISBN10: 9810225733
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Space Science | Astronomy
- Science | Physics | Astrophysics
- Science | Energy