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Characteristics of the formation of an electromagnetic wave field with an instantaneous change in the states of charges

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It is shown that in the process of annihilation and neutralization of two moving charges of opposite sign, energy is not radiated at the instant of the disappearance of the charges, but is formed later from the energy of the magnetic fields of the disappearing charges, i.e., a reaction effect occurs. An analogous effect will also occur in other radiation processes such as the instantaneous starting and stopping of charges, their instantaneous creation and the electrification of bodies, etc. The existence of the reaction effect in the radiation of electromagnetic energy by charges seems to be an essential defect in macroscopic electrodynamics.

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  1. Gorki Research Institute of Physics and Technology, USSR

    V. L. Kon'kov & G. P. Novikova

  2. N. I. Lobachevskii State University, Gorki

    V. L. Kon'kov & G. P. Novikova

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  1. V. L. Kon'kov
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 11, pp. 93–95, November, 1982.

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Kon'kov, V.L., Novikova, G.P. Characteristics of the formation of an electromagnetic wave field with an instantaneous change in the states of charges. Soviet Physics Journal 25, 1057–1059 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00891910

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