Single-Particle Electrodynamics - Assassination Science

and oversights surviving this process, both in form and in substance, the
author claims ownership for.
It must be noted, from the outset, that the author is an engineer, not
a physicist or mathematician. The author’s prime objective is to obtain the
correct mathematical description of the real physical world. Elegance of such
a correct description is, by the very nature of Nature, assured; but elegance
in the particular path travelled by the author during this quest is of no
import: let others, more capable, derive the results contained herein on the
back of an envelope, by means of wonderfully beautiful techniques, secure in
the knowledge that the author’s cumbersome yet intuitively understandable
derivation rests safely on their shelves.
It should also be noted that the results obtained in this thesis are not
revolutionary. No well-known law of physics is challenged. Some generally
accepted answers, of sometimes dubious origin, are put on a somewhat
more secure footing—or, at the very least, are given several additional dubious
origins. Some existing results that are mathematically undeniable, but
somewhat perplexing intuitively, are viewed from a new direction, or in some
instances from several new directions; whether the eye of the beholder approves
is beyond the author’s control. Some previously incomplete lines of
investigation are taken to their logical conclusion; the result is often surprisingly
simpler than the existing terminus. And finally there are the completely
new results, obtained after the traversing of much uncharted territory, which
may or may not be ultimately accepted as physically correct, but which, for
the moment, are the only candidates we have available to us.
If the reader finds, among these investigations, just a single paragraph
that raises the mist of one’s understanding of the physical world, then the
author has succeeded.
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