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Quantum electrodynamics and experiment demonstrate the nonretarded nature of electrodynamical force fields

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In quantum electrodynamics, the quantitatively most successful theory in the history of science, intercharge forces obeying the inverse square law are due to the exchange of space-like virtual photons. The fundamental quantum process underlying applications as diverse as the gyromagnetic ratio of the electron and electrical machinery is then Møller scattering ee → ee. Analysis of the quantum amplitude for this process shows that the corresponding intercharge force acts instantaneously. This prediction has been verified in a recent experiment.

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Field, J.H. Quantum electrodynamics and experiment demonstrate the nonretarded nature of electrodynamical force fields. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 6, 320–324 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477109040062

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