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2026-10-04 Horizon Research Publishing (hrpub.org)

URL: https://www.hrpub.org/journals/article_info.php?aid=5192 Downloaded: research/files/UJPA-2016-10-4-General-Classical-Electrodynamics.pdf (13 pages) from https://www.hrpub.org/download/20160930/UJPA4-18407374.pdf

Bibliographic [web]: Koen J. van Vlaenderen, "General Classical Electrodynamics", Universal Journal of Physics and Application 10(4):128-140 (2016), DOI 10.13189/ujpa.2016.100404. Affiliations: Ethergy B.V. Research, Alkmaar; Institute for Basic Research, Palm Harbor, FL.

Abstract (paraphrased) [web]: lists three inconsistencies of Maxwell's classical electrodynamics (N3LM violation for divergent/convergent stationary currents; two longitudinal Jefimenko far fields that are not waves; the 4/3 energy-momentum factor of a moving charged sphere). GCED is based on "Whittaker's reciprocal force law", is consistent only if the electric-potential speed a >> c, and reduces to Maxwell when a = c. Predicts longitudinal EM waves and superluminal longitudinal potential waves. Abstract states the theory "has been verified by seemingly unrelated experiments, such as the detection of superluminal Coulomb fields and longitudinal Ampère forces".

Experiments cited in Section 4 [read: research/files/UJPA-2016..., pp.136-137 by text layer]

  • Superluminal Coulomb field: G. Nimtz and A.A. Stahlhofen (evanescent tunnelling) [24]; Wang et al. 2013 (evanescent fields as near fields) [25]; R. de Sangro, G. Finocchiaro, P. Patteri, M. Piccolo, G. Pizzella, "Measuring propagation speed of Coulomb fields", arXiv:1211.2913 [26]. The author reads [26] as showing the near field "travels with velocity much greater than c".
  • Longitudinal Ampère force: Ampère's hairpin [27][28][9]; Lars Johansson, Lund Institute of Technology 1996 [27]; Rémi Saumont, Physics Letters A 165 (1992) 307-313 [28]; Stefan Marinov [8] and Genady Nikolaev [13]. Nikolaev's classical account of the Aharonov-Bohm effect as a longitudinal Ampère force is adopted.
  • Marinov motor "works as claimed, as observed by Phipps [29]" (Thomas E. Phipps Jr., "Observations of the Marinov motor", Apeiron 5(3)). The author says Wesley's theory of the Marinov motor is incorrect.
  • "Experiments have yet to be done to verify or falsify Nikolaev's induction law, see eq. 3.2."
  • Monstein-Wesley [30] and Ignatiev-Leus [31] reinterpreted as LEM waves at c, as in the 2015 folder paper; Strebkov SWEP single-wire system [32]; Podkletnov and Modanese [33][34]; Moray 1926 [35]; Harvey Fletcher affidavit [36] (cited at http://thmoray.org/images/affidavit.pdf, 1979); P.N. and A.N. Correa, Labofex 1996 [37].

Bearing

Priority 1. This is the author's only paper found in a journal with an ISSN after the Hadronic Journal papers, and it is the version cited by later authors (PhilArchive record KOEGCE, "cited by 5"). Relevant to claims 3-5. HRPUB is an open-access, author-pays publisher; how its peer review was done is not known from this visit.