The
purpose of the paper is to use fundamental theoretical and experimental
elements of electrodynamics for deriving properties of radiation fields and of
bound fields. A wide variety of examples prove that radiation fields and bound
fields do not represent the same physical object. This conclusion is new. Some
examples belong to the classical domain and others belong to the quantum
domain. Consequences of this outcome affect several physical issues. In
particular, these fields should be treated separately. For this reason, changes
must be introduced to the present form of the fields’ Lagrangian density of
quantum electrodynamics, where the fields tensor Fuv is a sum of
bound and radiation fields. Since the Lagrangian density is a key element of
the theory, its revision may entail changes of other specific issues. The
recent failure of quantum electrodynamics to explain the electron and the muon
data of the proton charge radius supports this conclusion.
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