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{{Infobox paper
| title = Commentary on Ritz\'s Electrodynamics
| url = [https://web.archive.org/web/20120910022527/http://www.datasync.com/~rsf1/ritz.htm Link to paper (Internet Archive)]
| author = [[Robert S Fritzius]]
| keywords = [[Electrodynamics]], [[Ritz]]
| published = 1998
}}

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==Abstract==

In 1908 Walter Ritz identified seven areas of difficulty with regard to the Maxwell-Lorentz electromagnetic field equations, which are based on the concept of a solid deformable ether.

# Electric and magnetic forces really express relations about space and time and should be replaced with non-instantaneous elementary actions (his emission theory).
# Advanced potentials don't exist (and their erroneous use led to the Rayleigh-Jeans ultraviolet catastrophe).
# Localization of energy in the ether is vague.
# It is impossible to reduce gravity to the same notions.
# The unacceptable inequality of action and reaction is brought about by the concept of absolute motion with respect to the ether.
# Apparent relativistic mass increase is amenable to a different interpretation.
# The use of absolute coordinates, independent of all motions of matter, requires throwing away the time honored use of Galilean relativity and our notions of rigid ponderable bodies.

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