Ampere’s Law is the Culprit!
- both equations have the same symmetry (the difference is that magnetic charge does not exist!)
- Ampere’s Law and Faraday’s Law:
- If Ampere’s Law were correct, the right hand side of Faraday’s Law should be equal to zero -- since no magnetic current.
- Therefore (?), maybe there is a problem with Ampere’s Law.
- In fact, Maxwell proposes a modification of Ampere’s Law by adding another term (the “displacement” current) to the right hand side of the equation! ie