https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4343-y
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
A different interpretation of “Measuring propagation speed of Coulomb fields” by R. de Sangro, G. Finocchiaro, P. Patteri, M. Piccolo, G. Pizzella
1
P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Leninsky Prospekt 53, Moscow, 117924, Russia
2
Tomsk State University, Lenin Prospekt 36, Tomsk, 634050, Russia
* e-mail: shabad@lpi.ru
Received:
15
June
2016
Accepted:
30
August
2016
Published online:
16
September
2016
We claim that the anti-relativistic statement in de Sangro et al. (Eur Phys J C 75:137, 2015) that the Coulomb field of a moving charge propagates rigidly with it, cannot as a matter of fact be inferred from the measurements reported in that reference. Registered is not the passing of the Coulomb disk, but the acceleration-dependent part of the Liénard–Wiechert field.
© The Author(s), 2016
