2010/12/18 by Chun Wa Wong, C. W. Wong, Wong, C. W.
Physics and Astronomy · #Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #physics.class-ph #physics.hist-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1012.4128
5 pages
arxiv created 2010/12/18 · arxiv updated 2010/12/21
The Lorenz electromagnetic theory of light, published two years after the Maxwell theory, starts by postulating that both scalar and vector potentials are retarded. We show that in spite of this postulate, Lorenz's theory gives a longitudinal electric field in vacuum that remains the instantaneous action at a distance it is in the Maxwell theory. There is in fact no difference between the two theories for electromagnetic phenomena in vacuum.