| Lectures on Cosmology and Action-At-A-Distance Electrodynamics Contributor(s): Hoyle, Fred (Author), Narlikar, Jayant V. (Author) |
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ISBN: 981022558X ISBN-13: 9789810225582 Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $55.10 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Astrophysics - Science | Energy |
| Dewey: 523.1 |
| LCCN: 96001986 |
| Series: World Scientific Astronomy and Astrophysics |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.36" W x 8.82" (0.75 lbs) 148 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book describes the subject of electrodynamics at classical as well as quantum level, developed as an interaction at a distance. Thus it has electric charges interacting with one another directly and not through the medium of a field. In general such an interaction travels forward and backward in time symmetrically, thus apparently violating the principle of causality. It turns out, however, that in such a description the cosmological boundary conditions become very important. The theory therefore works only in a cosmology with the right boundary conditions; but when it does work it is free from the divergences that plague a quantum field theory. |