# A Maxwell Universe – Back Cover Back Cover A Maxwell Universe begins from a simple premise: events occur. Registered change creates order. Time, distance, space, dimension, mathematics, and physical laws emerge from cause–effect patterns, not from a pre-existing spacetime or fixed rules. We never access any substrate directly; we see only the regularities in the effects available to us. Physics inherited a point-mass, point-charge ontology that shaped how matter and structure were described—creating problems that arose from our interpretations, not from nature itself. This book develops a different foundation: a universe built entirely from electromagnetic energy. Quantization, mass, charge, and structure arise from the cause–effect relations encoded in classical, linear, continuous Maxwell laws. Physical objects are stable electromagnetic configurations—circulating energy patterns that persist and interact. Forces, geometry, and large-scale behavior emerge from the dynamics of these patterns. In its final chapters, the book shows how perception, self, and agency can emerge from the same kinds of causal loops that give rise to time and space. A Maxwell Universe offers a unified ontology: one substrate, one dynamics, one physical reality in which matter, charges, forces, and solids are electromagnetic fields.