"Szczepan Bialek" wrote in message
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"Dave" wrote
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EM or ElectroMagnetic theory does indeed include charged particles.
Maxwell's equations are definately based on charged particles. just
where does the 'i' term come from if not from moving charges?

Take a glance in Maxwell's Treatise. There is the incompressible massles
fluid.
Maxwell did the math to Faraday ideas. But with one exception. Faraday
discovered the atomic nature of electricity (at electrolise).
Maxwell ignored it. He prefered fluids and whirls. Todays teachers also
prefere it.

and where does the charge term in art's favorite Gauss' law that is part
of Maxwell's equations come from if not from charged particles??

Each genius wrote his own Electrodynamics. They are in some points
similar. But the incompressible fluid is only in Maxwell's.
S*

the final result of the collection of Maxwell's equations does not rely on
an incompressible massless fluid. It says nothing about the nature of
space, only the relationship between the charges and fields... which is all
that is needed to completely describe charged particle and electro-magnetic
field interactions.