On the relativistic unification of electricity and magnetism

Details On the relativistic unification of electricity and magnetism On the relativistic unification of electricity and magnetism

2011-11-30

arxiv.org/abs/1111.7126v1

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History and Philosophy of Physics

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The unification of electricity and magnetism achieved by special relativity has remained for decades a model of unification in theoretical physics. We discuss the way the four main relevant authors (Lorentz, Poincar\'e, Einstein, Minkowski) dealt with this issue and show that Poincar\'e's derivation of the transformation laws for the potentials and the fields was definitely less arbitrary than those of the other cited authors, in contrast with the fact that here, as in other cases, Poincar\'e's contribution to relativity was systematically belittled by authoritative German physicists in the first two decades. In the course of the historical analysis a number of questions which are of contemporary foundational interest concerning relativistic electromagnetism are are also examined.

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