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I found another paper on this topic:PeterDonis said:Ah, yes, you're right.
Source (see page 44):paper said:C.4.2 Lorentz Force
Another felicitous result is that the low-velocity transform of the electric field from lab frame to a moving frame has the same form as the lab-frame Lorentz force (per unit charge), ##F/q=E+v/c×B##, for arbitrary velocity. Of course, neither Maxwell (1873) nor Lorentz (1892) were aware of this happy result of the Lorentz transformation of 4-force (Minkowski force).
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The electromagnetic field (or wave) cannot be measured directly, but only indirectly via the acceleration of a charged particle due to the force of the local electric field in it's rest frame.