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IL-257NUOVO CIMENTOVICE DIBEZIONB €B»I Referee report on the paper no ZjiiM'Author•""®AUTHOR:Stefan Marinov^^TITLE: Very Easy Demonstration <strong>of</strong> the Violation <strong>of</strong> the Angular Momentum Conservation-Lawv etOi(to be typewritten in English)As best I can tell from the somewhat scanty description <strong>of</strong> the author's experiment,there is nothing wrong with his experiment per se. What is wrong is the interpretationthe author puts on the experiment. <strong>The</strong> conventional, generally accepted interpretation<strong>of</strong> such apparent violations <strong>of</strong> conservation <strong>of</strong> angular momentum (or <strong>of</strong>linear momentum and <strong>of</strong> Newton's third law) isthat the electromagnetic field carriesa momentum density (l//XoC2)E x B. This momentum for the fields emerges in aperfectly straightforward <strong>way</strong> from the theoretical analysis <strong>of</strong> the energy-momentumtensor associated with Maxwell's equations (for a discussion <strong>of</strong> energy and momentumin the electromagnetic field, see Landau and Lifshitz, <strong>The</strong> Classical <strong>The</strong>ory <strong>of</strong>Fields, pp. 85-95; Soper, Classical Field <strong>The</strong>ory, Chapters 8, 9; Jackson, ClassicalElectrodynamics, p. 236; for an elementary argument <strong>of</strong> why electromagnetic fieldshave energy flow and momentum density, see the Feynmait Lectures on Physics,Chapter 27). This momentum in the fields provides a coherent and logical explanationfor the experimental results.If the author wishes to challenge the conventional view, lie will have to examinecritically the conventional theoretical arguments for energy and momentum in theelectromagnetic fields (as given in the above references), and establish exactly wherethese arguments are wrong. In the present paper, the author does not do this. <strong>The</strong>author refuses to accept the conventional view; but his only reason seems to be prejudice.In connection with the energy flow in electromagnetic fields, he declaresthat "...meanwhile every child knows that this is not true." If the author wishes tomake a case against the conventional view, he will have to <strong>of</strong>fer better reasons thanpolls conducted amongst children.I recommend against publication <strong>of</strong> this paper.PLEASE DO NOT SIGN