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Sometime around the year 1900 physicists took a big step towards a theory that would unify electric, magnetic and gravitic fields. Using Maxwell's equations and Newton's laws, they had put together what appeared to be a correct description of the structure of elementary charged particles at rest. They were very close to the correct result, but were held back because they used Maxwell's E and B equations rather than the presently popular vector potentials (phi and A) as the fundamental fields. This led them to incorrect ideas about the physical nature of charge and energy and non-physical use of the Poynting theorem.. Even the moving particle representation came very close, being off by only a factor of 4/3.
If this problem had been persued seriously for a little longer it would have been solved, but the whole body of researchers was diverted by important developments in Relativity and Quantum theory.
The following moves in the direction of a complete solution of the unified field problem. It is presented in two parts. The second is the newly revised (2009)version of PHYSICS 2001 Rev. The first is called the Short Book, a reduced version that puts emphsis less on rigor and more on visualization.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This is a long overdue thank you to Stan Sholar, who read the 1989 and 2001 editions of PHYSICS with such great care and so completely that the subsequent discussions led to an essentially error free (2009) PHYSICS 2001 Rev. In doing this, he became the one reader who best understands what the author is trying to do. The result is an invaluable improvement in the final work. I thank you, friend, Stan Sholar.
R. H. Dishington,