On explanations of electric and magnetic constants and units

✍ Scribed by A.T. Gresky

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1959
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 709 KB
• Volume: 267
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(59)90134-6

✦ Synopsis

Employing dimensional methods, it is suggested that "explanations" of the freespace dielectric constant e and the magnetic permeability constant P may lie in their proposed relationships to four highly fundamental quantities; for example, Ed = m.S WC)-* and pco = &~,(m,*c)-~.

The latter is considered to reflect a specific intrinsic property of the electron, that is, a constancy in the ratio of its magnetic moment (Bohr magneton) to its spin (a/2).

The former, equal to l/p,cs, reflects an additional intrinsic relationship of the electron to light velocity, presumably a characteristic of its associated photons.

Other constants and units are similarly analyzed to suggest possible methods for understanding the submicroscopic nature of electric and magnetic phenomena.