Conclusion

Well, there you have it. I've given you the benefit of what required most of my adult life to
discover. The definitions advanced in this paper are rigorous. It took years of sweat and tears to
come up with them. They're simple, but they will change your entire understanding of
electromagnetics, power, and energy once you grasp them. Please read them, and ponder
them, several times. One or two readings will not be sufficient to fully grasp what is said here.
Also, hopefully, by this time, the reader is beginning to experience the same emotions as I
experienced when I finally discovered how simple it all really was. First one wants to laugh for
about two hours at how truly ignorant we've all been. Then one wants to cry for about two hours
for the same reason. This could all have been done a century ago, if we had ever really
understood electromagnetics.
We've had this electromagnetics around for over 100 years -- Maxwell's book was published in
1873. We got it wrong, starting right with Maxwell and his use of the material ether, which was
almost universally assumed at the time. Still, by using quaternions, Maxwell succeeded in
packing a great deal more in the model than even he himself recognized. When the vector
aspects interacted to form a zero resultant translationally, those active interactants were still in
there and still fighting and interacting. The scalar component of the quaternion remained, and
infolded those struggling vectors and functions of them inside itself. In short, it captured the
case where the electromagnetic energies are involved in translation actions which nullify each
other translationally (electromagnetically). However, the energies are still in there in the
continuing interactants inside the zero vector resultant. As such, they are trapped EM energy.
And it is the trapped EM energy inside a mass -- not the mass per se -- which is responsible for
gravitation. In other words, Maxwell's theory already correctly captured the unification of the
gravitational field and the electromagnetic field in 1873.
Then Heaviside et al forced Maxwell's theory into a vector framework, throwing out the scalar
component, and discarding the unification of gravitation and electromagnetics along with it.
Serious errors were made and still exist in many of the fundamental definitions; in fact, many of
them aren't definitions at all. Nearly every engineer and physicist can readily calculate potentials
-- all, of course, on the "dissipation" side where the potentials are actually the amount of
potential that was collected upon a collector and then dissipated. I could find hardly a single
physicist who really knew what a scalar potential was prior to a finite amount being collected
and dissipated as voltage. Yet 99% of them firmly believed they understood the potential.
So now you have the results of this researcher's long and arduous quest for the golden fleece.
Please go forward with it, to make this a better and cleaner world for everyone.
Just remember that the control and use of energy is personal power. The control and use of
absolute energy is the control and use of absolute personal power. In the old adage, power
corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Please use it wisely.