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Updated: May 5, 2025
To make use of the field-concept in this other way is one of the tasks we have to undertake if we are to overcome the impasse in which present-day scientific cognition finds itself. To develop a picture of the type of field represented by levity, let us recall certain results from the observations of the last chapter.
It is to this concept of the field of force that we must now give special attention. For the field-concept, in the form introduced by Faraday into scientific thinking, is one of the few scientific concepts which have been obtained by being 'read' from the corresponding phenomena themselves, and which therefore retain their validity in a science which is based on the method of reading.
This is the reason why levity was banished from scientific inquiry, and why, when the field-concept was created by the genius of Faraday, it did not occur to anyone that with it the way was opened to comprehend field-types other than the centric one characteristic of gravity and kindred forces.
According to the field-concept, terrestrial manifestations of gravity are due to the earth's being the bearer of a gravitational field centred within the globe, and extending thence in all directions through space, across and beyond the earth's body.
Modern physics itself, with the help of Faraday's field-concept, describes these phenomena as caused by pressure resulting from the meeting in space of two similar electrical fields and suction resulting from the meeting of two dissimilar fields.
This field possesses different 'potentials' at its various points and so there exists a certain potential difference between the two electric charges. What then happens when a so-called 'conductor' is brought into such a field? From the point of view of the field-concept, conductivity consists in the property of a body not to allow any change of potential along its surface.
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