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A new approach to the study of nature's fundamental phenomena is presented. The approach is based on the mathematical modeling methodology and uses the hypothesis of the presence of the physical vacuum (ether) in which all processes develop. The physical vacuum is represented as a continuous medium with generally accepted laws of conservation of matter and momentum. From the appropriate two equations, mathematical consequences are obtained, which are given a physical interpretation.

For the first time, 150 years after studies of Faraday and Maxwell, it is shown that premises of the matter and momentum conservation mathematically give basic physical laws established experimentally: the Maxwell equations, the Lorentz force, the Gauss theorem; the laws: Coulomb, Biot – Savard, Ampere, electromagnetic induction, Ohm, Joule – Lenz, Wiedemann – Franz, universal gravitation, and etc. Details of mechanisms of many processes, that seemed previously paradoxical, have been disclosed: particle-wave dualism; energy of electric and magnetic fields; behavior of opposite charges in an electromagnetic field; interactions of magnets, currents; superconductivity; phenomena in contacts; phase states; quantization; gravity; ball lightning energy; the formation of minerals and the growth of the Earth.

More than seventy different known and new experimental facts, many of which have no explanation in modern physics, have been analyzed, including quantitatively.

Thus, the assumption of N.E. Zhukovsky, D.I. Mendeleev, K.E. Tsiolkovsky and other great scientists that Maxwell's equations are a logical consequence of Newtonian continuum mechanics has been confirmed.

The proposed unified physical and mathematical framework opens up the possibility of creating fundamentally new devices for the production and storage of energy, motion, operation with information, and control of gravity.

The material of the book can be viewed as a mathematical apparatus for convergence, which allows to quantitatively unite various branches of science on the basis of a single universal model of nature.