@subtype its mostly a curiosity for me more than anything. there was an odd chain of claims that amounts to

standard engineering goes like this

faraday does a magnets
maxwell finalizes the math
??? scientists reject it and make him rewrite it as vectors
something about the vectors is different
??? forgar the name takes the vectors and amputates half of the formulas because reasons
heaviside and poynting et all finish electrical engineering using the amputated vectors
relativity et all uses this model

supposedly tesla liked to fuck around and was using the quaternion form, which eric dollard makes some reference to.

at one point i came across an amusing argument that was saying technically some solutions to maxwells equations account for unlimited vacuum energy entering the system :blobcatgoogly: but those solutions are shelved because it makes thermodynamics unhappy

i suspect newton and tesla were probably more correct than einstein, but i'm also a weirdo who likes weird shit. and i just want to make basic circuits :blobcatlaydown: