I have read the first book. Brilliant, scholarly, easily accessible to the layman, FIELDS AND ENERGY is both revolutionary and a great read.

Science grows and mutates in fits and starts. At times, the pragmatic engineers with hands-on experience hold the limelight, and at other times the academic scientist prevails. At times, these academics grow too abstract, lose footing with real-world foundations, and float away into airy abstractions. At such times, a new insight into the old model must draw them back to earth.

Such a time is at hand. We are born too late to see the world turned upside down by Einstein or Newton or Copernicus, but the next upending of the standard scientific model may be here.

Hans G Schantz looks with a pragmatic eye, sharpened by long experience with antenna engineering, at the abstract vaporings of quantum mechanics. His thesis is that physics took a wrong turn, partly for political reasons, partly philosophical, and partly because scientific thinkers are men of their time after all, and beholden to the popular intellectual fashions of their generation. His thesis is that classical mechanics, perhaps somewhat akin to pilot wave theory, provides a simpler, cleaner, and more robust explanation than Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Bell.

In clear and entertaining language, Schantz in part one reviews the history of science from the medieval to the modern period, explored surprising quirks and nooks of history.