2011/09/19 by Márton Gömöri, Marton Gomori, Gomori, Marton +3
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Biofield Effects and Biophysics #Classical Physics (physics.class-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #physics.class-ph #physics.hist-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1109.3936
14 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:0912.4388
openalex publication_date 2011/09/19 · arxiv created 2014/06/15 · arxiv updated 2014/06/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The special relativity principle presupposes that the states of the physical system concerned can be meaningfully characterized, at least locally, as such in which the system is at rest or in motion with some velocity relative to an arbitrary frame of reference. In the first part of the paper we show that electrodynamic systems, in general, do not satisfy this condition. In the second part of the paper we argue that exatly the same condition serves as a necessary condition for the persistence of an extended physical object. As a consequence, we argue, electromagnetic field strengths cannot be the individuating properties of electromagnetic field---contrary to the standard realistic interpretation of CED. In other words, CED is ontologically incomplete.