From aether impulse to QED: Sommerfeld and the Bremsstrahlen theory

M. Eckert

DOI:10.1016/J.SHPSB.2015.06.001

Corpus ID: 119043020

From aether impulse to QED: Sommerfeld and the Bremsstrahlen theory

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  title={From aether impulse to QED: Sommerfeld and the Bremsstrahlen theory},
  author={M. Eckert},
  journal={Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics},
  year={2015},
  volume={51},
  pages={9-22}
}

M. Eckert

Published 2015

Physics

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics

Abstract The radiation that is due to the braking of charged particles has been in the focus of theoretical physics since the discovery of X-rays by the end of the 19th century. The impact of cathode rays in the anti-cathode of an X-ray tube that resulted in the production of X-rays led to the view that X-rays are aether impulses spreading from the site of the impact. In 1909, Arnold Sommerfeld calculated from Maxwell׳s equations the angular distribution of electromagnetic radiation due to the… CONTINUE READING

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