The illusion of acceleration in the retarded Lienard-Wiechert electromagnetic field

TL;DR

The paper argues that the commonly believed acceleration dependence in the retarded Lienard-Wiechert electromagnetic field is an illusion, emphasizing that true electromagnetic interactions depend only on positions and velocities, not acceleration.

Contribution

It challenges the traditional view by showing that the apparent acceleration dependence is an illusion and that the actual interaction is symmetric and depends solely on positions and velocities.

Findings

Retarded Lienard-Wiechert fields do not genuinely depend on acceleration.

True electromagnetic interactions are symmetric and depend only on positions and velocities.

Changing the acceleration affects the advanced source's position and velocity, altering the force.

Abstract

It is generally assumed that the retarded Lienard-Wiechert electromagnetic field produced by a point particle depends on the acceleration of that source particle. This dependence is not real, it is an illusion. The true electromagnetic interaction is time symmetric (half retarded and half advanced) and depends only on the positions and velocities of the electrically charged particles. A different acceleration of the retarded source particle will result in a different position and velocity of the advanced source particle, changing in this way the Lorentz force felt by the test particle.