Displacement Current Referances

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Original poster: "SF by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <sfusare-at-adelphia-dot-net>

    At the risk of getting trounced for continuing an off topic
discussion....

    Here are a few referances that some may find interesting per the
debate on the displacement current
and the presence or absence of an associated B field:

D. F. Bartlett (Professor - University of Colorado Boulder), "Conduction
current and the magnetic field in a circular capacitor"
American Journal of Physics #58 (12), p 1168 - 1172 (1990) (Squid
detects no B field to accompany displacement current
in a slowly discharging capacitor. B field that is detected is fast case
can also be described using the conduction current flowing
in the plates)

Oleg Jefimenko (Professor Emeritus - West Virginia University)
"Causality, Electromagnetic Induction
and Gravitation" Electret Scientific Company, 2000 - Chapter 1: "
Maxwell's Equations and Causality
in Electromagnetic Phenomena" (Lack of causality in Maxwell's curl
equations)

Craig Bohren (Professor Penn State) quoted in "The Shape of Light"
Electric Spacecraft Journal #28,
p 7 (April 1999)
    "Many textbooks state that a magnetic field  is produced by a time
varying electric field. This is false and was
known to be false by Plank and others......" ( I have not looked into
his other published material)

Granted that an academic title does not automatically confer competence.
Also granted that both Dr. Jefimenko
and Dr. Bohren completely avoid mention of the unpleasant side effects
of the theory they posit (so how does
a TEM wave propagate?). But the works (Jefimenko's in particular) are
very well done and bear reading by
those on both sides of this debate.

(crawling back into my hole)

Regards

Scott Fusare