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which represents a magnetic field perpendicular to the plane of 

 the paper and directed away from the reader. The energy of 

 the magnetic field is represented by the kinetic energy of rotation 

 of the ether cells. 



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Fig. 189. 



Conception of the electric field. The positive ether cells in 

 an electric field are thought of as being displaced in the direction 

 of the field while the negative cells are j 

 displaced in the opposite direction, and 

 this displacement is assumed to be pro- \t 

 portional to the electric field intensity. 

 Thus, Fig. 189 represents the positive vi 

 cells as being displaced towards the bot- ^ 

 torn of the page relatively to the nega- ^- 

 tive cells, as shown by the arrows, that is 

 to say, the distortion of the ether struc- 

 ture which is shown in Fig. 189 represents an electric field di- 

 rected towards the bottom of the page. Figure 190 shows two 

 meshes of the cellular structure of the dis- 

 torted ether of Fig. 189. These two meshes 

 are square in the undistorted ether as shown 

 in Fig. 1 88, whereas the downward displace- 

 ment of the positive cells in Fig. 189 has dis- 

 torted these meshes as shown in Figs. 189 

 and 190. Inasmuch as the cell structure of 

 the ether is assumed to be elastic (the gear 

 teeth in Fig. 187 being made of substance 

 like rubber), the distortion of the ether 

 structure which is shown in Fig. 189 repre- 

 sents potential energy, and this energy is the 

 energy of the electric field. 



An understanding of the magnetic action of what may be called 

 a tapering electric field may be arrived at by considering the torque 

 action which is exerted upon a given cell by the elastic distortion 

 which is represented in Figs. 189 and 190. Consider the two 



Fig. 190. 



