Lectures on Cosmology and Action-At-A-Distance Electrodynamics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789810225582)

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
ISBN-10: 981022558X
ISBN-13: 9789810225582
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 07/03/1996
Pages: 148
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.82h x 6.36w x 0.56d