[whatshisface]

>Maxwell's equations also have no place to put a gravity term, yet gravity clearly affects light.

The place to put the "gravity term" is in the coordinate system that Maxwell's equations take place in, and the definition of the derivative which is implicitly brought in via the curls, divergences, etc. That's general relativity, and Maxwell's equations are already fully compatible with it.

>[this tends to ruffle feathers when I say it] ... It's "denying science" when you insist the known-by-science-to-be-broken models are in fact not broken where the science is pretty clear that they are.

People are probably taking issue with your use of the words "broken" and "wrong," because you're describing a car that says 90mph on the dealership's sticker but can't go 900mph as "broken," or a one pound lump of beef as "wrong," because although the butcher said it weighed a pound, and you were charged for a pound, it'd be nice if it were two.

[jerf]

Yes, if you add relativity to Maxwell's equations, you get relativistic Maxwell's equations. Ultimately not particularly relevant here anyhow since it's QM describing what's going on here, not relativity.

I don't deal in automotive metaphors because they rarely enlighten, so I'll just stick with, yes, they are broken in those places, and are not suitable for unqualified claims about the nature of reality. This isn't about what would be nice if it were true or slight exaggerations, it's about the models being broken by being applied outside of their domain in an unqualified manner. That's exactly not how they are wrong. They are wrong in a much stronger manner.

And what's more, their strong brokenness is scientific consensus, not some sort of whacky theory. Whack theorization is what you're doing when you take these models, apply them in a domain they are known to be broken in, then claim this is the absolute truth about what is going on.

[ChrisLomont]

> relativity to Maxwell's equations, you get relativistic Maxwell's equations

Maxwell's equations imply (special) relativity, so there's nothing to be added. Maxwell's equations imply the speed of light is the same in all reference frames, which is all you need to derive special relativity.

That is why people of the time were trying to understand how this can ben so, why the did things like Michaelson-Morely to look for invariance/ether, and why so many of the terms used in relativity predate relativity, since they were invented to handle that Maxwell's Equations had this invariance.

Basically, Maxwell's equations, as written were relativistically invariant, thus compatible.

[tsimionescu]

Special relativity is (partially) predicted by Maxwell's equations, and they are fully compatible. They are instead incompatible with classical mechanics.

GP claimed that Maxwell's equations are missing a term for gravity/mass, which would be the domain of General Relativity. This is more complicated, as it's true that they didn't predict gravitational lensing. But, they are still compatible with GR, as GR modifies the coordinate system, and Maxwell's equation in the GR curved space-time coordinate system do predict gravitational lensing.

GP also pointed out that Maxwell's equations are not compatible at all with QM, as they incorrectly predict that photons can't interact. Here there is no way to save them - Maxwell's equations are just an approximation, and the actual laws governing the behavior of light are substantially different, only reducing to ME in certain approximations (just like classical mechanics is not compatible with either QM or SR/GR, except as an approximation of either of the two others).