Inconsistency in classical electrodynamics
Philosophy of Science 71 (4):525-549 (2004)
| Abstract | I show that the standard approach to modeling phenomena involving microscopic classical electrodynamics is mathematically inconsistent. I argue that there is no conceptually unproblematic and consistent theory covering the same phenomena to which this inconsistent theory can be thought of as an approximation; and I propose a set of conditions for the acceptability of inconsistent theories. | |||||||||
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