Non-Locality in Classical Electrodynamics
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Classical electrodynamicsÐif developed consistently, as in Dirac's classical theory of the electronÐis causally non-local. I distinguish two distinct causal locality principles and argue, using Dirac's theory as my main case study, that neither can be reduced to a non-causal principle of local determinism.
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