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Maxwell’s equations unify electricity, magnetism, and optics. They give rise to the first relativistic dynamical theory ever devised by men.
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In Gaussian units \(\rho \) and \(\mathbf{J} \) get multiplied by \(4 \pi \). Rationalized Gaussian units are widely used in modern field theory.
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More details on gauge transformations will be carried out later in Chap. 17.
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The propagators of different particles of different spins, as we will see later, involve such a factor, see, e.g. Chap. 16.
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Manoukian, E.B. (2020). First Unified Field Theory: Maxwell’s Equations and Lorentz Covariance. In: 100 Years of Fundamental Theoretical Physics in the Palm of Your Hand. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51081-7_14
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