Re: Collective Electrodynamics by Carver Meade

On Dec 28, 8:12 am, "Bill Miller" <billmillerkt...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
 If you think that Quantum Mechanics are guys that fix broken Quantums, then
this book is probably not for you.

If, on the other hand, you dislike the idea that location and energy and
momentum are statistical when they involve electrons, and are smoothly well
defined when they involve currents, then this 135 page book may be what you
have been looking for.

Meade's basic premise is that the quantum nature of matter can be used to
describe ALL EM phenomena. To demonstrate this, he has chosen an interesting
starting point: a variety of loops of super conducting material.

In conventional EM theory, for a given current, as the size of a loop
changes, the flux associated with the loop will change in a strictly linear
fashion. Experimentally, Meade has learned that flux in super conducting
loops is quantum. That is, as a loop's dimensions are changed, the flux
level varies in small increments, rather than in a strictly linear fashion..

The reason, says Meade, is that in a conventional loop, the currents are
disordered. In a superconductor, all the electrons are in what amounts to
"lock step."

He takes this newly discovered experimental evidence and uses it to develop
current EM theory *without* Maxwell's Equations. (And, thankfully, without
Displacement Current!) In other words, he takes Quantum Results and uses
them to derive Classical EM.

But he does not stop there.

Instead, he analyzes the apparent discontinuity that occurs when an electron
changes its energy state and emits a photon. He shows that the apparent
"jump" or discontinuity does not happen instantaneously. Instead, there is a
process analogous to "positive feedback" in the interaction between two
charged particles. Because the interaction happens so rapidly, it simply
*appears* instantaneous.

This is a thought-provoking booklet. It leaves many questions - such as the
nature of an electron - unanswered or partially answered. But it provides a
plausible explanation to "bridge the gap" between the quantum universe and
the classical one. They are, he claims, one and the same.

My thanks to *maxwell* for referring me to this book.

Bill Miller
You are very welcome, Bill. I'm pleased that you found such valuable
insights from such a nice, little book; proving, once again, that
'small is beautiful'.
All the best in 2008, to everyone still interested in the fundamentals
of EM.
.

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