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between the weight of hydrogen when free and hydrogen as a constit- 
uent of other elements to a ‘‘packing effect,’’ but it ts possibly more 
natural to ascribe it to a variation in gravitational permeability. 
V. THE NATURE OF ENERGY 
The foregoing reduction of physical quantities to space and time 
makes clear the nature of energy, which has been so difficult a con- 
ception to grasp. 
(20) (E) = energy = (a1 x ) 
but since M = L3 
(21) 1 = en ee L? wh tic fl lectri 
am G9 ee Or 4 4 vhs magnetic flux X electric quan- 
tity per second. 
In other words all energy, of whatever kind, potential or kinetic, is the 
product of magnetic flux and electric current, or magnetic flux times 
electric quantity per second or of magnetic flux times electric quantity 
x a frequency. This magnetic flux may be identified, as is usual, 
with ether flow (that is electric quantity x velocity), and electric 
quantity with ether twist. Hence all energy is in the ether and is 
nothing else than a certain quantity of twisted etherial flow or strain. 
That potential energy is nothing else than some kind of strain in 
the ether, the latter being perfectly elastic, is generally supposed. So 
all the energy of position whether this be gravitational energy, as in the 
separation of masses; electrostatic, as in the separation of charges; 
chemical, as in the separation of atoms; cohesional, as in the separation 
of molecules; or magnetic, as in the separation of magnetic poles or 
currents, is nothing else than a strain, twist or what not in the ether. 
It is an etherial phenomenon. It is always and everywhere magnetic 
flux x electric quantity x frequency. Similarly with kinetic energy; 
for kinetic energy is the expression of inertia and elasticity. Inertia 
is self induction. To move an electric charge from rest, or to increase 
its velocity when in motion, strain in the ether is set up or increased 
just as in separating unlike charges to make potential energy. The 
greater the velocity, and the greater the mass, i.e., the greater the 
number of electric charges moved, the greater is this strain. When a 
moving body or current stops, or is retarded, this strain or energy or 
deformation is suddenly released. Consequently all energy whether 
