Synopsis:
- Electricity and magnetism are the same phenomenon
- Electric bodies radiate invisible waves of energy through space (fields)
- The number of coordinates needed to determine a wave is infinite
- Mathematical relation between electric and magnetic fields (field equations)
- Light is made up of electromagnetic waves
- The electric field and electric charge density are related
- The magnetic field lines must be closed loops (there are no magnetic monopoles)
- The electric force is created by changes in the magnetic field
- The magnetic force is created by changes in the electric field
- Electric and magnetic fields behave like mechanical stresses in a solid medium
- A solid medium must exist and pervade the whole universe (the "ether")
- Light waves are waves in such a medium
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