The Net Advance of Physics:
MANSURIPUR'S PARADOX

Special Relativity: Paradoxes:
MANSURIPUR'S PARADOX and other paradoxes involving the Lorentz Force-Law:

See also Right-Angle Lever Paradox for a similar problem involving only mechanical, not electromagnetic, forces.

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• General:
  • Trouble with the Lorentz law of force: Incompatibility with special relativity and momentum conservation by Masud Mansuripur [Physical Review Letters 108, 193901 (2012)]
  • Trouble with the Lorentz Law of Force: Response to Critics by Masud Mansuripur [Proc. SPIE 8455, 845512-1:13 (2012)]

  • Textbook Electrodynamics May Contradict Relativity by Adrian Cho [Science 336, (6080) 404 (2012 April 27)] News story, supportive of Mansuripur.

• Papers arguing that there is no paradox:
  • Mansuripur's Paradox by Kirk T. McDonald [2012/05] With references to older discussions on similar lines.
  • Does Lorentz Force Law Contradict the Principle and Theories of Relativity for Uniform Linear Motion? by C. S. Unnikrishnan [2012/05]
  • Comment [on Mansuripur's "paradox"] by Daniel A. T. Vanzella [2012/05]
  • Comment on "Trouble with the Lorentz Law of Force" by David J. Griffiths and Vladimir Hnizdo [2012/05]
  • Resolution of the Mansuripur Paradox by Daniel J. Cross [2012/05]
  • Comment by Pablo L. Saldanha [2012/05]
  • Examples and Comments Related to Relativity Controversies by Timothy H. Boyer [2012/06]
  • Comment [on Mansuripur Effect] by Marc Brachet and E. Tirapegui [2012/07]
  • Electromagnetic Angular Momentum and Relativity by Kimball A. Milton and Giulio Meille [2012/08]
  • Comment by Francisco De Zela [2012/10]

• Other views:
  • It should be Einstein-Laub Equations inside Matter by Mahdy Rahman Chowdhury Mahdy [2012/11] Supports the non-Minkowskian electrodynamics proposed by Einstein and J. Laub in 1908 (as does Mansuripur, but for different reasons).

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