TO:	INTERNET:Tebearden@aol.com, INTERNET:Tebearden@aol.com
Re:	Re: Series of Books
T. E. Bearden,
Dear Tom,
I am sure that the series of books planned by you for WS will show vividly
that electrodynamics is and always has been an incomplete theory of
nature. I am impressed by your scholarship, for example you point out that
Maxwell never wrote down the Maxwell equations in vector form - he was
probably influenced by Rowan Hamilton's development of quaternions in
Dublin. The vector formulation was the work of people like Heaviside as
you point out.
I agree in principle that even in the linear electrodynamics with which
you appear to be concerned primarily, the received wisdom of transverse
only is deeply flawed. You use the third law of Newton in a very revealing
way in this context. My conclusion is similar, although it is arrived at
through non-linear optical phenomena unknown until 1965.
It seems to me that one cannot forget about the Newton Third Law in
electrodynamics, as seems to be the case at present, and you also seem to
have developed a host of other ideas which are less familiar to me, but
which seem to be well worked out and perfectly logical, especially your
highly developed ideas about the scalar potential.
Since Maxwell's equations are part of every undergraduate course in
physics there is bound to be a fast and furious debate about any progress
in this area. As a chemist who minored in mathematics, I contrived to miss
every formal course on Maxwell's equations, and so it was much easier to
propose something new and logical, while retaining all due respect for the
old.
If scientists are not prepared to accept logic, they are indeed defending
a faith as you say, rather than investigating nature.
best regards,
Myron Evans.
cc colleagues.