This list and very short description of postulated alternative mechanisms of interaction is not meant to be exhaustive or comprehensive. It is included to show that a wide range of interpretations of the interaction of charged particles across space and time are available. All of them can appropriately be used over a range of applicable circumstances and they all fail outside their range of applicability. Certain of them lend themselves to more than one formal structure, for example, it is possible to describe classical electromagnetism in terms of the Maxwell tensor in a four-vector relativistic space time and many of them fit more or less neatly into more over arching concepts for example, local gauge invariant field theories or Fisher information exchange concepts. However, the material in this overall text has been written so that while it is specific to classical electromagnetism, as this is anticipated to be the most widely used model recognized by the target readership, none of the above postulated mechanisms are inconsistent with the material in the book.

Inspec keywords: Maxwell equations

Other keywords: four-vector relativistic space time; Fisher information exchange concepts; formal structure; classical electromagnetism; local gauge invariant field theories; postulated alternative mechanisms; interaction theories; charged particles; Maxwell tensor

Subjects: Classical electromagnetism