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greypilgrim
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Hi.
I was surprised when I first read that there's quite a couple of unsolved problems in classical electrodynamics, such as the Abraham–Lorentz force. I have a couple of questions about that:
I was surprised when I first read that there's quite a couple of unsolved problems in classical electrodynamics, such as the Abraham–Lorentz force. I have a couple of questions about that:
- Do those difficulties only appear for exact point-like particles? Do they all vanish with continuous charge densities (even if they might be localized around a very small, yet finite, region in space)?
- If yes: Isn't the assumption of point-like particles or also quantized charge already quantum, so why would we even expect classical electrodynamics to hold?