Scientific Contributions
Moon’s early career focused in optics applications for engineers. Collaborating with Domina Eberle Spencer, he began researching electromagnetism and Amperian forces. The quantity of papers that followed culminated in Foundations of Electrodynamics, unique for its physical insights, and two field theory books, which became standard references for many years. Much later, Moon and Spencer unified the approach to collections of data (vectors, tensors, etc.), with a concept they coined as “holors”. Through their work, they became disillusioned with Einsteinian relativity and sought neo-classical explanations for various phenomena. As a result of this, Moon and Spencer became popular among the lunatic fringe; a situation in which they appeared to revel.
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