TABLE OF CONTENTS 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.
The exchange of the fundamental physical quantities of energy, linear and angular momentum between distributions of point-like charged particles is the subject of classical electromagnetism. The interaction of these charged particles, as they move through three-dimensional space, as a charge distribution in space persisting over a given period of time, is explained via the invocation of the concept of fields.
These fields are associated with a charge distribution...
