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* From his 1905 special relativity paper: “It is well known that Maxwell’s electrodynamics—as usually understood now—when applied to
moving bodies leads to asymmetries that do not seem inherent in the phenomena. Take, for example, the electrodynamic interaction
between a magnet and a conductor.” From the 1905 light quanta paper: “A profound formal difference exists between the theories that
physicists have formed about gases and other ponderable bodies, and Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetic processes in so-called empty
space.”