Faraday's Lines of Force as Strings: from Gauss' Law to the Arrow of Time
(2012)
Journal Article
Mansfield, P. (2012). Faraday's Lines of Force as Strings: from Gauss' Law to the Arrow of Time. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012(10), Article 149. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10%282012%29149
We reformulate classical electromagnetism as the statistical mechanics of lines of electric flux with dynamics described by the string action in four dimensions. The retarded solution to Maxwell’s equations emerges naturally as an average over a micr... Read More about Faraday's Lines of Force as Strings: from Gauss' Law to the Arrow of Time.