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LECTURES ON COSMOLOGY AND ACTION-AT-A-DISTANCE ELECTRODYNAMICS: 1 (WORLD SCIENTIFIC SERIES IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS) - Softcover

Hoyle, Fred; Narlikar, Jayant V

 
9789810225735: LECTURES ON COSMOLOGY AND ACTION-AT-A-DISTANCE ELECTRODYNAMICS: 1 (WORLD SCIENTIFIC SERIES IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9810225733 ISBN 13: 9789810225735
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 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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Synopsis

This volume 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.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9810225733
ISBN 13 
9789810225735
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
148