Re: right hand rule

From: Rene Tschaggelar (none_at_none.net)
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 21:16:25 +0100

Kevin Aylward wrote:
> Phil Hobbs wrote:
>
>>The mystery is why there are no magnetic monopoles
>
> I don't personally see this as a mystery. Why should there be two
> methods associated with E&M? Magnetic fields are simply electric fields
> viewed from another reference frame. Electric fields are just the
> manifestation of photon momentum exchange between charges. So, why
> should there be magnetic monopoles?

Naa. While a dynamic H and E field can be changed into the
other by looking from another reference, this is not true
for static E or H fields. This means a static H field doesn't
become a pure E field at "whatever" speed. "Whatever" in this
context means anything between minus c and plus c.

Rene 

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