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the plates A and B to become charged. The forcing of electric 

 current through the wire means a forced slipping of ether cells 

 of each chain where it is cut by the wire, and each chain of 

 geared cells, initially like Fig. 201, becomes distorted like Fig. 

 202. Throughout the region between A and B, the positive 

 ether cells are displaced downwards and the negative ether 



Fig. 203. 



cells are displaced upwards, that is, the region between A and B 

 becomes an electric field, the direction of which is downwards 

 from the positively charged plate A to the negatively charged 

 plate B. 



Given two charged metal plates A and B as above explained, 

 each dotted curve in Fig. 203 being supposed to represent an 

 endless zigzag chain of ether cells like Fig. 202. Then a wire 

 (ribbon) connected from A to B will cut across every one of 

 the zigzag chains of geared ether cells, slipping will begin where 

 each chain is cut by the wire, each zigzag chain of cells will begin 

 to be relieved from its zigzag distortion, the energy of each dis- 

 torted chain will be transmitted along the chain to the wire 

 where it will appear as heat, and the entire region between 

 and surrounding the plates A and B will be relieved from 



