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	==Biography==		==Biography==
	Little biographical detail about Gray has been published. He is known within the CNPS and the wider Weber electrodynamics community through his written introductions to Weber's theory and through his December 2022 CNPS presentation on unipolar induction.		Little biographical detail about Gray has been published. He is known within the CNPS and the wider Weber electrodynamics community through his written introductions to Weber's theory, published under the name Robert W. Gray, and through his December 2022 CNPS presentation on unipolar induction.

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	The central philosophical claim of the field approach is that '''the Coulomb field is the only real, physical field'''. Any other "field" appearing in the equations — magnetic field, induced electric field — is on this view a mathematical bookkeeping function derived from the motion of charge, not an independently existing physical thing. Gray presents this position in a notation deliberately close to that of Maxwell electrodynamics, so that the two frameworks can be compared term by term, and he gives differential equations for Weber electrodynamics in that notation.		The central philosophical claim of the field approach is that '''the Coulomb field is the only real, physical field'''. Any other "field" appearing in the equations — magnetic field, induced electric field — is on this view a mathematical bookkeeping function derived from the motion of charge, not an independently existing physical thing. Gray presents this position in a notation deliberately close to that of Maxwell electrodynamics, so that the two frameworks can be compared term by term, and he gives differential equations for Weber electrodynamics in that notation.

	A distinctive feature of Gray's exposition is that he develops Weber's force equation through ~~several~~ successive levels of approximation, beginning with the most fundamental case of discrete charged bodies and working up through progressively coarser descriptions to the case of a conducting wire forming a closed current loop. This layered presentation makes visible where the familiar textbook results of Maxwell theory are recovered as limiting cases, and — more importantly for the dissident argument — where the two theories can be expected to disagree, since it is precisely in the discrete-charge and open-circuit regimes that Weber's law and Maxwell's are not equivalent.		A distinctive feature of Gray's exposition is that he develops Weber's force equation through four successive levels of approximation, beginning with the most fundamental case of discrete charged bodies and working up through progressively coarser descriptions to the case of a conducting wire forming a closed current loop. This layered presentation makes visible where the familiar textbook results of Maxwell theory are recovered as limiting cases, and — more importantly for the dissident argument — where the two theories can be expected to disagree, since it is precisely in the discrete-charge and open-circuit regimes that Weber's law and Maxwell's are not equivalent.

	===Unipolar induction===		===Unipolar induction===

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