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yiorgos
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My main question is if the Maxwell equations have been generalized
to include extra dimensions in an generally accepted form,
or is it still under investigation?
I've already read
http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0609260v4
but I didn't quite like the add-hoc assertion
We assert that in all the traditional (3 + 1) D curl operations and cross products in
physics [...] one of the vectors involved is actually an antisymmetric second rank tensor.
Moreover, even we accept the above assertion, the resulting equations loose the aesthetic symmetry of classical Maxwell equations, a fact that in physics is always a warning message of something wrong.
Furthermore the following article
http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0106235v2
makes things even more confusing as it states that Feynman derived the first set of Maxwell (relativistic) equations starting from the non relativistic Newton's second law!
Since I am a Physician only by hobby (my real occupation is Electrical Engineer) I can not totally follow the advanced mathematical/physics concepts in the relative articles I am asking your help for clarifying these things.
to include extra dimensions in an generally accepted form,
or is it still under investigation?
I've already read
http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0609260v4
but I didn't quite like the add-hoc assertion
We assert that in all the traditional (3 + 1) D curl operations and cross products in
physics [...] one of the vectors involved is actually an antisymmetric second rank tensor.
Moreover, even we accept the above assertion, the resulting equations loose the aesthetic symmetry of classical Maxwell equations, a fact that in physics is always a warning message of something wrong.
Furthermore the following article
http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0106235v2
makes things even more confusing as it states that Feynman derived the first set of Maxwell (relativistic) equations starting from the non relativistic Newton's second law!
Since I am a Physician only by hobby (my real occupation is Electrical Engineer) I can not totally follow the advanced mathematical/physics concepts in the relative articles I am asking your help for clarifying these things.