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Is electromagnetism due to one thing: a photon which is somehow simultaneously a localized point particle and a non-localized wave? Or is it two different yet complimentary things: non-local fields guiding localized energy? Alex Macris over at the Contemplations on the Tree of Woe Substack provides a good summary.
Hans argues that conventional thinking on electromagnetism, as currently taught and understood, is based on false premises, and that a return to the original, physically grounded formulations of the 19th century (especially those of Faraday, Maxwell, Heaviside, and Hertz) can provide a clearer, more coherent foundation for physics. Underlying this is a broader critique of modern scientific culture: that it has become overly formalistic, dismissive of alternative interpretations, and hostile to foundational questioning. Hans’s goal is to reinvigorate scientific inquiry by recovering lost insights and re-centering electromagnetic theory on physical understanding rather than abstract calculation.
Scientist, inventor, and author, Hans G. Schantz draws upon a wealth of historical analysis, emerging discoveries, and his own original research to argue that electromagnetism requires a dualistic interpretation: that fields and energy are two different phenomena that follow different paths. This perspective resolves a host of outstanding puzzles and paradoxes including radiation reaction, wave-particle duality, and “vacuum” energy. The Correspondence Principle demands quantum mechanics must agree with classical electromagnetic results. These emerging results lead quantum mechanics toward the long-neglected pilot-wave interpretation and toward the physical reality of what Einstein called gespensterfeld or “ghost fields.”
The Fields & Energy project has grown from the originally envisioned single tome into a three-volume trilogy:
Book I: Fundamentals & Origins of Electromagnetism
Book II: Where Physics Went Wrong
Book III: How Electromagnetism & Quantum Mechanics Work
As of Fall 2025, Book I is complete and on its way to backers of the Fields & Energy Book I crowdfund. All the content from Book I and most of the content from Book II are already available in post format here at the Fields & Energy Substack.
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