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{{Infobox paper
| title = Maxwell's Laws and the Propagation of Light
| url = [http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6568.pdf Link to paper]
| author = [[Viraj Fernando]]
| keywords = Maxwell, light, electromagnetic waves, electric field, magnetic field
| published = 2012
| journal = [[Proceedings of the NPA]]
| volume = 9
| num_pages = 2
| pages = 160-161
}}

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==Abstract==

Maxwell's theory of propagation of electromagnetic waves is based on the Biot-Savart's law together with its converse law acting simultaneously. That is, it is supposedly based on the formation of a magnetic field by the passage of an electric current and the formation of an electric field by a changing magnetic field. Therefore in order that this model holds, and for the waves to perpetuate (without dissipating in a short interval as water waves do), the magnetic field would need to fluctuate on a continuous basis, while the electric current created by the changing magnetic field moves outwards in a spherical wave. One of the chief difficulties of Maxwell's model is to account for how and why the magnetic field fluctuates.

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