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The title of this chapter is a deliberate plagiarism of a chapter in The Feynman Lectures on Physics[2, Chap. 28].We rapidly review some of the points made there, which clearly intrigued Feynman, Dirac, and many other scientists before classical electrodynamics was swept away by quantum electrodynamics with all its glorious successes. This section is a manifesto for the ideas presented in this book, and at the same time a demonstration that the subject here is not some weird offshoot of standard physics, but a straight application of the latter to a context that may have been largely forgotten simply because it is not very tractable from a mathematical standpoint.
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Lyle, S.N. (2010). Electromagnetic Mass. In: Self-Force and Inertia. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 796. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04785-5_3
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