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Electric and magnetic fields were considered the end-all-be-all of electromagnetism. However, in 1959, two physicists (Aharonov and Bohm) proposed a quantum mechanical experiment that shows electric and magnetic potentials are actually more real.
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Quantum Wave Functions:
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Solar System Model:
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What the HECK are Magnets?
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How Special Relativity Fixed Electromagnetism:
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http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_15.html
journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.115.485
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.5.3
journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.123.1511
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0370-1301/62/1/303
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