| Description | Fitzgerald believes that Larmor's way of working the rotating nuclei is practically the same as his own. He considers problems with this approach, or areas he does not understand, in terms of force and velocities. He notes an original objection of his, to positive and negative elements rotating in the same direction to produce a magnetic force, believing that they would travel in opposite courses. Larmor's rotating bodies 'would make excellent material of which to build non-magnetic matter only'. He cannot see how hydrogen atoms could combine if essentially electrified, and he thinks that the ionic charge must be a separate entity. When attached to matter, ions could rotate in opposite directions round the atom. Fitzgerald thinks that if he is right about the steady state involving stationary waves, then any change in the size or period would involve permanent radiation, which may be the reason for persistance of spectral lines. |