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Theoretical Question 1: The Shockley-James Paradox In the year 1905, Albert Einstein proposed the special theory of relativity to resolve the inconsistency between Newton’s mechanics and Maxwell’s electromagnetism. Proper understanding of the theory led to the resolution of many apparent paradoxes. At the time, the discussion focused mostly on the propagation of electromagnetic waves. In this question, we solve a paradox of a different type. For a fairly simple system of charges proposed by W. Shockley and R. P. James in 1967, understanding the conservatio