Reply to Itin, Obukhov and Hehl paper "An Electric Charge has no Screw Sense - A Comment on the Twist-Free Formulation of Electrodynamics by da Rocha & Rodrigues"

TL;DR

This paper defends a previous electrodynamics formulation against criticism, clarifies misunderstandings, and provides new comments to reinforce its approach, emphasizing its validity and relevance.

Contribution

It offers a rebuttal to critiques of a specific electrodynamics formulation and clarifies its theoretical stance with additional insights.

Findings

Criticisms are ill conceived or irrelevant.

The original formulation remains valid and well-founded.

Additional comments reinforce the approach's robustness.

Abstract

In this note we briefly comment a paper by Itin, Obukhov and Hehl criticising our previous paper. We show that all remarks by our critics are ill conceived or irrelevant to our approach and moreover we provide some pertinent new comments to their critical paper, with the aim to clarify even more our view on the subject.