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This profound challenge to some of the most fundamental orthodoxies of modern nuclear physics grew from its author's discovery that, for all its success and sophistication, atomic theory has failed to provide a coherant explanation for the everyday phenomenon of electricity. M.L. Coleman located the source of the problem in the assumption that there are two different atomic particles carrying electrical charges, the electron with a negative charge and a position with a positive charge. The author boldly argues that there is, in fact, only one such particle, carrying both charges. He christens this single particle the "Eptron" A largely self educated scientist, Mr. Coleman remains a proud heir to the classical tradition stemming from Newton and clearly demonstrates how nuclear theory has failed to make sense of the basic phenomena of electricity, magnetism, and gravity which puzzled and inspired early physicists. The author reached his revolutionary conclusions by combining his mastery of both classical and modern theory with, in his own words, "A little common sense." Of course, a great deal of arduous research, creative experiment, and complex methematical thought to confirm his arguments. With rigor and clarity, he shows not only that the hypothesis of the Eptron is more elegant and economical than that of the seperate electrons and positrons, but also that it makes both direct and alternating current explicable for the first time in terms of nuclear physics. "All I have done," he explains with disarming honesty, "Is explain how electricity works." Eptron theory involves a radical new understanding not just of electricity, but of light itself. Through collisions with oneanother, Eptrons are transformed into photons and then back into Eptrons by the process of expansion and contraction which the eye perceives as light. While the higher reaches of his mathematics are addressed to the scientific community, the book as a whole is designed for laymen as well, and they will learn an enormous amount along the way, not just about Eptrons, but also about the history of Physics. "Demystifying Electricity" throws down a gauntlet to modern science that it cannot afford to ignore and reclaims nuclear theory in the name of common sense. "If my work is made available to young chemists, physicists, and electrical engineers," the author asserts with justifiable pride," I believe they will study it and find it correct."