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A Proposal to Revise the Macroscopic Electromagnetic Theory

1998/10/20 by Jacob Neufeld, Neufeld, Jacob
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Classical Physics (physics.class-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Geophysics and Sensor Technology #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #physics.class-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/9810037

17 pages

arxiv created 1998/10/20 · openalex publication_date 1998/10/20 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

There are reasons to believe that implications of a certain paradox introduced by Ginzburg and related problems have not been fully recognized. Pertinent issues remain open and unresolved. There are instances when the current widely used theory yields results having no physical meaning. As a result, the current widely used theory is not equipped to cope with some of the most fundamental problems in physics. In the present investigation, a new formulation is proposed based on certain non-Maxwellian quantities which occur whenever there is absorption. In the proposed formulation, the inconsistencies and contradictions disclosed by the Ginzburg Paradox have been removed.

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