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Self-consistent electrodynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

O. Buneman
O. Buneman
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Peterhouse Cambridge
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Abstract

The idea of direct action between streams is applied to a continuous charged fluid and combined with the new formulation of the electrodynamical laws of motion in terms of conservation of circulation. A simple and rigorous integrated formulation is thus obtained from the Maxwell-Lorentz differential equations, applicable to co-existing positive and negative fluids, as well as vacuum. Exact solutions are obtained, among them one which represents self-consistent, self-maintained flow in a hollow tubular region of infinite axial extent. It is hoped this tube might be bent into a torus and that an electron model will result from merely quantizing the one or two vortices around which this flow-pattern circulates.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , January 1954 , pp. 77 - 97
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1954

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