Re: Is charge conserved between frames?

From: Tom Roberts (tjroberts_at_lucent.com)
Date: 10/30/04 

Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 04:21:04 GMT

sal wrote:
> So, please, Tom, admit you're human -- repeat after me:
> "I, Tom Roberts, don't think it's a good idea to call it an electric field
> 4-vector"
>
> That's a far more defensible statement than,
> "It's _NOT_ an electric field 4-vector"

Well, while it is the components of a 4-vector, it is quite clearly not
THE electric field, and is not even a field at all.

But yes, it is most efinitely not a good idea to call it that.

Tom Roberts tjroberts@lucent.com