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To: mikegi
That isn't really action at a distance. It is measurement along two dimensions, along the axis of time and along the axis of space. Movement on one axis, mathematically speaking is accompanied by movement on the other axis, mathematically speaking. Not causation, but confusion; one is the time equivalent of the other, and the other is the space equivalent of the first. Measurement is a process, so physical quantities are inherently processes. B and E are one thing seen as separate processes, just measured differently because there is more than one way to measure things.
18 posted on 08/13/2003 12:30:10 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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To: RightWhale
So, are you saying that Feynman was wrong? He said "one making the other..." which is another way of saying one causes the other.

You're right when you say there's no causation implied in Maxwell's Equations [think f(u) = f(x-ct)]. Is there no causation implied in differential equations at all?
22 posted on 08/13/2003 12:52:53 PM PDT by mikegi
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