TOWARD A NEW ELECTROMAGNETICS
PART III:  CLARIFYING THE VECTOR CONCEPT

 

 -- Electrical Physics Presently Has a Mindset --

           In examining the foundations of geometry, mechanics, and electromagnetics, it becomes strikingly clear that substantial -- even grave theoretical errors were made early on and perpetuated into the existing theory.  These errors are now so firmly entrenched that they form a part of the "mindset" of almost all physicists, engineers, and scientists.
           So ingrained are these errors and inconsistencies that the orthodox scientist/theoretician finds it almost impossible to break out of them.
           The present mindset is analogous to the Newtonian mindset which so fiercely resisted the new ideas of relativity, shortly after the turn of the century.  However, after a few scientists formulated the rules and theory of the "relativity mathematics game," a new generation of students, not yet so firmly engrained in the Newtonian mindset, could grasp the new relativity when their teachers expounded it.
           In this short series of papers
1,2 I will roughly outline where the founders of mechanics and electromagnetics went wrong, and indicate the way to correct the fundamental errors.  In addition, I will briefly point out some of the implications, and speak of some direct experimental proof.

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