Re: magnetic field

From: Repeating Rifle (salmonegg_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 06:08:21 GMT

in article RAM5d.5110$5H2.4507@news01.roc.ny, John at John@john.com wrote on
9/26/04 9:23 PM:

> This is all a bit over my head, but presumably the first observer (the one
> who doesn't see the magnetic field because it doesn't exist for him) sees
> something else; whatever the second observer sees as a magnetic field
> manifests itself somehow for the first observer? Don't conservation laws
> say that elements might vary, but the total sum must be the same?
> Probably not...

Whatever one observer sees is what another observer sees when transformed ty
the appropriate Lorentz transformation.

Bill

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