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inertia and weight. Matter or mass has three spatial dimensions and 
it is from it that we get our conception of 3 dimensional space. The 
recognition that matter consists of electric charges carries with it the 
consequence that inertia is self induction. For to move electrical 
charges, or to change their rate of motion, work, positive or negative, 
must be done. Inertia is hence nothing but self induction. Every 
time an object is moved a myriad of parallel electric currents are 
produced. The self induction, or inertia, is due presumably to the 
production of a stress, strain or twist in the ether. This ether stress, 
flux or twist per second is what is known as energy. 
Mass is then proportional to quantity of electricity and self 
induction. . 
(1) Mass = Quantity of electricity x self-induction. 
(2) M = (e) x I 
Substituting the dimensions for these quantities: 
(3) (M) = (M¥?L82T7Kv? x L p) 
and since uv/2Ki2 = = 
fl 
(4) (M) = (sever x L x 14) Te (M¥21,3/2,,1/2) 
(5) .*. (M) = (Ly) 
M 
6) wo = (¥) 
In other words », magnetic permeability, has the dimensions of a 
density as recognized by Maxwell, Lodge and Williams. 
T 
(7) Since (uK) = i? 
LI? TONS ‘ : 
(8) fe. (i) = ( =) = specific inductive capacity 
Substituting this value of K in the dimensions of (e) 
LT 
(9) (e) a, (M127 32T—-1 2) = (sneer ot = (L2) 
Quantity of electricity, or (e), has therefore the dimensions of L?, 
as already pointed out as a possibility by Lodge.’ 
