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PART 4: THE FIELD & THE ETHER

Ch. 4.1: Faraday's Lines of Force (The ontological shift to fields)
Ch. 4.2: Maxwell's Synthesis (The Equations, the Wave Equation)
Ch. 4.3: The Luminiferous Ether (The return of the absolute background)
Ch. 4.4: The Self-Interacting Electron Problem (Infinite energy/mass)
PHIL Embedded: Action-at-a-distance vs. Field ontology. The underdetermination problem (prelude to Lorentz-Einstein).