ZP OWER C ORPORATION PAGE OF 352 Z ERO P OINT E NERGY J. Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 1873, sections 822 and 823. There have been attempts in the past to "expand" Maxwell's equations in the name of symmetry. One of these was the concept of magnetic monopoles. It was determined that magnetic monopoles could be inserted into Maxwell's equations and the equations would remain self-consistent and usable. The hunt for magnetic monopoles in the s ended without any confirmed monopoles. Another attempt was the expansion of Maxwell's equations to include positive and negative charges as "carriers" of the weak nuclear force. This is what is now known as the "electroweak" force. This expansion of Maxwell's equations is also self-consistent and usable. In this case particles of mass roughly in the range expected have been found. What is missing from these expansions is any physical concept that would give rise to these expansions. It must be stressed that Maxwell derived his equations. He did not just write them down and then note that they happened to work. The derivation was the direct result of the physical postulates (superfluid aether and vortices) he made in his derivation. Magnetic monopoles and "weak" nuclear theory do notarise from Maxwell's equations. There is therefore no physical basis for expecting these equations to work. The Derivation of Special Relativity The special theory of relativity was derived from Maxwell's Equations. The Special Theory was a leap of quantification based on an apparent anomaly. Maxwell's equations imply that the measured speed of light (in a vacuum) is constant for any observer -- regardless of how that observer was moving relative to the source of light. In developing Special Relativity, Einstein postulated the universality of the speed of light and applied the mathematical consequences to see where they would lead. The primary result of the special theory of relativity was the equivalence of matter and energy (E=mc2). The Lorentz-Fitzgerald relations had been developed earlier from standard aether wave theories (which is why they are called Lorentz-Fitzgerald equations instead of Einstein equations. Special Relativity is therefore based on the superfluid derivations of Maxwell and Hemholtz.