[ Reply | Next | Previous | Up ]
From: Bill KT4YE
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Time: 17:17:12
Remote Name: 12.93.230.148
Your response is similar to what I have seen in quite a number of other sites. I also recall -- from my University days -- seeing a set of equations that required the magnetic equivalent of an electron (ie monopole) to be complete. Of course, nobody (that i know of) has ever found such a critter. <><><> The equations that we know as Maxwell's are, I believe, based on systems in equilibrium. Maxwell was also a hydrodynamicist, and it seems likely (to me) that he would have used his knowledge of gases and fluids in making his analyses. Hydrodynamics deals not only with systems in equilibrium, but also systems that are sometimes far from it! <><><><> My core question remains: What was lost in the translation and re-gauging?