Through the Looking Glass: How to Understand Electromagnetic Phenomena, Including Neural Oscillations

A person viewing electric charges or magnets moving at a constant velocity does not see that the moving electric charges or magnets are at rest in a coordinate system (cs) moving at a constant velocity v relative to the stationary cs in which the human observer is located. In special relativity, the truth is that the moving charges and magnets are indeed at rest in a cs moving at a constant velocity v relative to the cs in which the human observer sees himself at rest. With this understanding, one explains correctly how electromagnetic (em) phenomena transform from the human observer's cs to the cs moving with velocity v relative to the human observer's cs, thus establishing the invariance of Maxwell's Laws for these cs_s and the principle of relativity for em phenomena. Maxwell's Laws explain all em phenomena. Neural oscillations rely on local cell assemblies with local electric field potentials and local magnetic fields and thus are em phenomena explained by Maxwell's Laws. Neural oscillations are subject to the coordinate transformations described in this paper and may well involve logic and cognition that provide a platform that allow these oscillations to be the interface between empirically demonstrated associations between mental and physical phenomena.