A bit further to this:

What should I do when I find that Maxwell's equations do NOT accurately
describe the observable situation, with observations that can be easily
repeated with the same results each time? What should I do about the
fact that charge is indeed quantized if I look at it finely enough?
What should I do about the fact that radiation is quantized if I look
at it finely enough? Maxwell's equations don't account for or allow
for those effects, respectively. Yes, I certaily accept Maxwell's
equations as adequate to describe what I'm likely to see in any ham
antenna I deal with, but at the same time, I realize that they are not
the final word. What I WOULD like to get back to here is that all the
theory I listed in the posting which precipitated all this, from
Maxwell to King and everything in between, all agrees with how charge
DOES behave well enough to be very useful. It's those abstractions
which have been proposed which do NOT line up with those theories very
well at all that I want to weed out. I'm for sure not going to use
them, and I'd prefer to educate others to avoid them as well.

For anyone interested in looking them up, I believe it will be found
that Maxwell's equations become very uninteresting if there is no
charge and no motion of charge. Fields alone don't do it. It's those
things--charge and motion of charge--embodied right there in the
equations, that result in what we describe as fields around our
transmtting antennas: electric, magnetic, and most interesting to us
here, electromagnetic. And on the receiving end, it's the motion of
charges in response to the fields that produce an interesting result.
Reference:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu...ric/maxeq.html

Cheers,
Tom

Cecil wrote, in a closing paragraph of a posting whose Usenet ID is
available on request,

If your current charge concepts disagree with Maxwell's equations,
Maxwell's equations win *EVERY* time. Maxwell's equations do not
require individual charge carriers. They work just fine considering
only fields in the aether.