Re: On Arindam Banerjee's recoil-less rail gun and Newton's 3rd Law violations in electrodynamics

J. J. Lodder wrote:

Volney <volney@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 4/27/2024 5:50 AM, J. J. Lodder wrote:

bertietaylor <bertietaylor@myyahoo.com> wrote:
 

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That is not the case, so this is a new discovery - the Lorentz force

does

NOT have an equal and opposite reaction. Your point is merely

theoretical.

My evidence is experimental.

 Correct, merely experimental.
It stands falsified by a reliable theory.
 FYI, the Maxwell-Lorentz equations as they stand
do conserve energy-momentum.
If you want to be taken seriously it is up to you
to tell the world what is wrong with Maxwell-Lorentz,
and how these equations must be modified.
 As long as you can't do that you are merely an incompetent tinkerer,
 

 It is entirely possible that Banjo stumbled across that apparent violation of momentum by momentum being carried away by the electromagnetic field.

If the momentum is carried away by the electromagnetic fiel
there is still momentum conservation.
And photon drive really isn't a new idea.
However, it suffers from the unpleasant fact
that  c = 300 megawatt/newton, in slightly unconventional units.

Arindam's work has nothing to do with photon drives. It has to do with the discovery that the Lorenz force does not have an
equal and opposite reaction