On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:14 AM, David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote:
The bottom line is that it is easy to produce a non radiating structure of > any degree of complexity as long as the currents flowing within that > structure are constant. An orbitsphere such as Mills appears to refer to > is a simple example. > Stefan Israelsson Tampe explained sometime back that the orbitsphere is characterized by a non-constant charge distribution in which the charge is proportional to the real value of one of the spherical harmonics: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg105034.html If Stefan is correct, it seems that Mills is proposing a current that varies along the surface of the orbitsphere, i.e., is not constant. Stefan in a later email says that the non-radiation condition is not the only requirement that must be met: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg105060.html I mention this not because I was persuaded of anything by that thread, but because it seems relevant to your thought experiment. As an aside, it seems to me that in such thought experiments a two-dimensional sheet of current is not sufficient to explain other experimental observations. I am of the impression that the current distribution that describes an electron orbital must be three dimensional, varying with the radius. Eric
