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Newton's Laws of Motion Based Substantial Aether Theory for Electro-Magnetic Wave

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2014

T.-W. Lin  and
H. Lin
T.-W. Lin*
Affiliation:
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 10617, R.O.C.
H. Lin
Affiliation:
General Motors Company, Pontiac, Michigan 48340, USA
*
*twlin@ntu.edu.tw
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Abstract

Even though electro-magnetic wave can be calculated from Maxwell's equations, the cause of electro-magnetic waves has not been fully understood. This paper proposes a Newton's laws of motion based aether theory to derive identical results as those from Maxwell's equations for free field. The authors suggest that every aether particle has a mass and occupies a volume in space. Every aether particle has translational movement and particle spin movement. The translational movement is similar to the gas particle moving in the air and it does not produce an electro-magnetic wave. The particle spin movement generates shear and a spin wave that will be shown to have the same results as Maxwell's equations. Detailed derivation of electro-magnetic wave solutions from the proposed aether theory and Maxwell's equations is presented in this paper to show the validation of this model.

Keywords

Maxwell's equationSubstantial aether theoryNewton's laws of motionKinetic theory of gasElectro-magnetic waveNavier equationConstitutive law for solidConstitutive law for particleEquation of motion
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Mechanics , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , August 2014 , pp. 435 - 442
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, R.O.C. 2014 

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