id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_qozp6zgqdbf6dn7jxt6dnzj5yu Mathias Frisch Inconsistency in Classical Electrodynamics* 2004 25 .pdf application/pdf 11171 577 53 standard microscopic classical electrodynamics of charged particles interacting with electromagnetic fields. notion of a charged particle is an idealization and that classical electrodynamics fundamentally is a continuum theory. view that we ought to identify a physical theory with the set of its fundamental equations and that the claim that there are discrete charged Maxwell-Lorentz equations, according to which charges and electromagnetic fields interact in two distinct ways. charged particles and fields interact, the Maxwell-Lorentz equations can equations to determine the fields associated with a given charge and current distribution; or we can use the Lorentz force law to calculate the of the claim that discrete finitely charge particles exist and the MaxwellLorentz equations is inconsistent. in the case of the imaginary theory with inconsistent force laws the fundamental equations of classical electrodynamics have a physically interesting class of models of which they are jointly true: systems of continuous ./cache/work_qozp6zgqdbf6dn7jxt6dnzj5yu.pdf ./txt/work_qozp6zgqdbf6dn7jxt6dnzj5yu.txt