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Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> The theory is based on the assumption that all of the forces are
> CONSERVATIVE:
>
> W. Panofsky, M. Phillips, Classical Electricity and Magnetism, Addison-
> Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts (1962):
> p.96: "By assembling these charges we have changed the energy of the
> system, and since all of the forces are conservative, we can identify
> this expression for the work of assembly with the energy of the
> system."
> p.102: "The resultant energy expression is nevertheless general, since
> no nonconservative forces are involved."
> p.103: "We must remember that the only physical fact underlying this
> discussion is Coulomb's law, the remainder of the discusion being
> mathematical, and therefore we cannot expect to obtain any physical
> concept regarding the mechanical interaction of charges which will add
> any physical facts beyond Coulomb's law."
>
> Yet the fact that NONCONSERVATIVE forces are unavoidably involved is
> implicitly taken into account:
>
> W. Panofsky, M. Phillips, Classical Electricity and Magnetism, Addison-
> Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts (1962):
> p.100: "Thus we cannot equate the increment of the work done... to the
> increase in total energy, since heat transfers are also involved."
> p.115: "Therefore the decrease in force� cannot be explained by
> electrical forces alone."
> pp.115-116: "Thus the decrease in force that is experienced between
> two charges when they are immersed in a dielectric liquid can be
> understood only by considering the effect of the pressure of the
> liquid on the charges themselves. In accordance with the philosophy of
> the action-at-a-distance theory, no change in the purely electrical
> interaction between the charges takes place."
>
> Pentcho Valev
> pvalev@yahoo.com

So Pentcho Valev obviously failes to understand the difference
between ideal circumstances and realistic circumstances, and
thus decides that the UNIVERSE IS INCONSISTENT.

Updated list of differences ignored by Pentcho Valev:
    - ideal circumstances vs. realistic circumstances,  <== NEW!
    - crackpots vs. people writing books fancied by crackpots,
    - rates vs. values,
    - a personal humorous musing vs. a common dogma,
    - children's books vs. inspired essays,
    - physicists vs. philosophers,
    - coordinate time vs. proper time,
    - invariance vs. constancy,
    - special relativity vs. general relativity,
    - teachers vs. hypnotists,
    - laymen vs. zombies,
    - a person being right vs. a theory being right,
    - students vs. imbeciles,
    - bad science vs. bad engineering,
    - bad engineering vs. bad cost management,
    - honing the foundations of a theory vs. fighting it,
    - physics vs. linguistics,
    - an article written in 1905 vs. a theory created in 1915,
    - understanding a book vs. turning its pages,
    - speed vs. relative (aka closing) speed,
    - doing algebra vs. randomly writing down symbols,
    - real life vs. a Usenet hobby group,
    - receiving a detailed reply vs. being ignored,
    - everyday concepts vs. scientific concepts in physics,
    - the three things that smell like fish,
    - inertial vs. non-inertial,
    - speed vs. velocity,
    - an article vs. a book,
    - relativity vs. disguised ether addiction,
    - algebra vs. analytic geometry,
    - kneeling down vs. bending over,
    - local vs. global,
    - a sycophant in English vs. in French,
    - a relation vs. an equation,
    - massive vs. massless particles,
    - a Mexican poncho vs. a Sears poncho,
   [ - implication vs. equivalence,  <== perhaps to be removed ]
    - group velocity vs. phase velocity,
    - science vs. religion

Dirk Vdm