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Central claims: van Vlaenderen Koen

Folder name spells the surname "Vlaenederen"; the papers print "van Vlaenderen" (Koen J. van Vlaenderen). Three papers, all with a readable text layer, so there is no source gap. Pages 16-21 of the 2015 paper (experiments review and conclusions) were deep-read after QE; pages 22-25 (appendices, references) remain digest only. The experiments in the 2003 and 2015 papers are cited from other authors; none is the author's own, and the 1999 paper has no experiments or numbers. Whether the other authors' reports are accurately represented was not checked against their own papers.

  1. The scalar S = -eps0mu0dPhi/dt - div A (the Lorenz-gauge expression, called the "scalar magnetic field" B_l = -div A in the 2015 paper) is a physical, measurable field rather than a gauge artefact, so the Lorenz condition is a special case and not a free choice. [2003 paper; 2015 paper]
  2. Maxwell's equations, extended with scalar-field terms (div E - dS/dt = rho/eps0; curl B + grad S - eps0mu0dE/dt = mu0J), predict longitudinal vacuum waves (E along the direction of travel, no B), a longitudinal force JS along current elements, scalar energy S^2/(2 mu0), and a power term (rho/eps0)S that could let static charge act as a power source. QE note: the paper does not say where this energy comes from; (33)-(34) form a covariant 4-force, and energy closes only if charged matter's rest energy changes at c^2rhoS (reviewer's derivation, not in the paper); no magnitude for S is given. [2003 paper]
  3. The standard Maxwell-Lorentz (Grassmann) force between open-circuit stationary currents violates Newton's third law, and adding a longitudinal Ampere force J*B_l restores it; this requires three vacuum waves (Phi, speed a much greater than c; longitudinal electromagnetic (LEM), speed b = c; transverse, speed c), rejection of the Lorenz condition, and supports Rutherford's resolution of the 4/3 electromagnetic-mass problem. The paper also states (p.10, p.21) that Maxwell's theory in the Lorenz gauge is "far field inconsistent" (it has two 'longitudinal' 1/r far-field terms with no partner field, on the author's definition that far fields are "two mutually inducing fields"), while his "simple Maxwell" theory (Maxwell without the induced field E_l, equivalent to the Coulomb gauge) is not. QE deep read: for an oscillating dipole the two longitudinal 1/r terms are real as separate integrand pieces but cancel exactly, so the Coulomb-gauge and Jefimenko forms give the identical field. The paper also argues (p.16) that Ampere, Gauss and Weber used open circuits, the only truly closed stationary current being a superconductor current. [2015 paper]
  4. Experiments by Tesla, Ignatiev and Leus (about 1.12c to 1.2c, and, per the 2003 paper, "unusually high" transmitted energy), Monstein and Wesley (longitudinal polarisation), Tzontchev et al., Strebkov's single-wire resonant transmission (LEM if no ground return, S = B_l E_l/mu0; the author assumes no return, not tested), exploding-wire studies (Nasilowski, Graneau), Ampere's hairpin, and the Aharonov-Bohm effect are qualitatively consistent with scalar/longitudinal effects; the author says quantitative tests are still needed (the 2015 paper adds that induction law 3.2 is unverified; it is the author's own named test: sinusoidal curl-free primary currents should induce a secondary field and currents 90 degrees or more out of phase, and the first experimenter to verify it also verifies B_l). [2003 paper; 2015 paper]
  5. Phi or LEM radiation underlies anomalous devices: Tesla's "teleforce" emissions from high-voltage discharges, Podkletnov's gravity-impulse signal (reported >= 64c), T. Henry Moray's radiant-energy receiver, Correa and Chernetsky discharge tubes, via a proposed "Phi photoelectric effect" and macroscopic tunnelling as local violation of charge conservation. [2003 paper; 2015 paper]
  6. The quantum wave function psi is a real charge density with an attached velocity; Maxwell's equations follow from charge/mass conservation; a point of space is a Coulomb or gravity source only where psi satisfies "self-potential" equations; electrostatic-mass and zero-point-field (ZPF) mass models are joined by rho_massc^2 = rhoPhi for a massless light-speed "parton", and charge has fractal dimension 3/2. [1999 paper]

Priority note: the 2003 paper claims Monstein and Wesley's energy flux and density derive from the author's 2001 theorem (with A. Waser) and were used without citation; Monstein and Wesley's position is known here only through that paper.