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In 1861, James Clerk-Maxwell published Part II of his four-part series 'On physical lines of force'. In it, he attempted to construct a vortex model of the magnetic field but after much effort neither he, nor other late nineteenth century physicists who followed him, managed to produce a workable theory. What survived from these attempts were Maxwell's four equations of electrodynamics together with the Lorentz force law, formulae that made no attempt to describe an underlying reality but stood only as a mathematical description of the observed phenomena. When the quantum of action was introduced by Planck in 1900 the difficulties that had faced Maxwell's generation were still unresolved. Since then theories of increasing mathematical complexity have been constructed to attempt to bring the totality of phenomena into order with little success. This work examines the problems that had been abandoned long before quantum mechanics was formulated in 1925 and argues that these issues need to be revisited before real progress in the quantum theory of the electromagnetic field can be made.

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Galileo-Newton Mechanics; Electromagnetism; Theory of Blackbody Radiation; Wave-Particle Duality; Atomic Spectra; Theory of Hydrogen Atom; Wave Mechanics; Matrix Mechanics; Dirac Spinor Theory;

Quantum Puzzle, The: Critique Of Quantum Theory

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      Publisher World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
      Published 14 June 2017
      ISBN-13 9789814696968
      978-9814696968
      ISBN-10 981469696X
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      Quantum physics

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      Book Synopsis
      In 1861, James Clerk-Maxwell published Part II of his four-part series 'On physical lines of force'. In it, he attempted to construct a vortex model of the magnetic field but after much effort neither he, nor other late nineteenth century physicists who followed him, managed to produce a workable theory. What survived from these attempts were Maxwell's four equations of electrodynamics together with the Lorentz force law, formulae that made no attempt to describe an underlying reality but stood only as a mathematical description of the observed phenomena. When the quantum of action was introduced by Planck in 1900 the difficulties that had faced Maxwell's generation were still unresolved. Since then theories of increasing mathematical complexity have been constructed to attempt to bring the totality of phenomena into order with little success. This work examines the problems that had been abandoned long before quantum mechanics was formulated in 1925 and argues that these issues need to be revisited before real progress in the quantum theory of the electromagnetic field can be made.

      Table of Contents
      Galileo-Newton Mechanics; Electromagnetism; Theory of Blackbody Radiation; Wave-Particle Duality; Atomic Spectra; Theory of Hydrogen Atom; Wave Mechanics; Matrix Mechanics; Dirac Spinor Theory;

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