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kinetic or potential is etherial strain. And quantity of energy is 
quantity of etherial distortion per second. 
Now both magnetic flux and electric quantity are often particulate. 
Magnetic flux x length is so many magnetons; electric quantity, so 
many electrons. An electron is the smallest possible amount of 
electricity which can exist independently; and a magneton is possibly 
the smallest amount of magnetic moment. Hence energy which is 
nothing more than the quantity of magnetic flux and electric quantity 
formed in the ether per second by moving particulate electric charges 
may also be supposed to be particulate. It must be in multiples of 
“kinetons.” And we may identify one “kineton” with one quantum 
or several quanta of energy. 
The quantum constant h has the dimensions of ergs-seconds. 
It is, therefore, nothing else than a definite amount of magnetic flux x 
electric quantity. 
Ls L’ L3 
(22) (h) = ergs-seconds = T * Sues (*) = = x u) 
Hence h is related to mass. Mass is magnetic flux seconds and h is 
ergs-seconds—that is, it is magnetic flux x electric current seconds. 
Temperature, 6, has the dimensions of energy. It too is (L*/T?), or 
magnetic flux < electricchargepersecond. Temperatureisnothing else 
than the product of magnetism by current. This is obvious whether we 
are dealing with temperature of a material body which is the kinetic 
energy of its molecules and atoms, or the temperature of the ether, 
radiant heat, which isnothing else than an electro-magnetic disturbance 
in the ether; i.e., a certain quantity of free magnetism xX electric cur- 
rent; or latent heat which is potential energy. 
This conception that all energy, of all kinds, whether potential or 
kinetic, is nothing else than a certain quantity of magnetic flux 
multiplied by a certain quantity of electric current in the luminiferous 
ether, the writer has found to be extremely useful in simplifying his 
conceptions. It is of course an old conception and one which should 
be revivified. But if magnetic flux is nothing but a phenomenon of 
L LL & 
* s . . = See ee Ee 
electricity in motion, energy may be represented as TT Xx T x 
That is, energy is the product of the square of electric current in the 
ether, multiplied by self induction, or by a length; or it is the square 
/ L 
of electric quantity multiplied by acceleration L? x L? X Te 
