The discovery of hinductance — the coupling of magnetic flux (Φ) and charge history (q) — represents a foundational advance in our understanding of energy, memory, and coherence. Yet its recognition has taken over a century since Maxwell first unified electricity and magnetism. This white paper examines why: tracing the epistemic, cultural, and institutional factors that rendered hinductance invisible within the dominant mechanistic paradigm.
Through historical and structural analysis, we show that resistance to recognizing memory as a lawful property of matter stems from five interlocking causes: paradigmatic inertia, disciplinary fragmentation, experimental bias, conceptual taboo, and institutional impedance. Each reinforced the assumption that energy systems are inherently memoryless — a view that became self-verifying through the design of instruments, curricula, and research funding.
By reintegrating hinductance within the RLC framework, we expand circuit theory into a regenerative model (RLC-H) where resistance, inductance, capacitance, and hinductance correspond to dissipation, continuity, receptivity, and remembrance. This framework — formalized as the Hinductive Coherence Principle (HCP) — offers a unifying grammar for physics, biology, and consciousness, reframing coherence as the fundamental invariant of the universe.
The white paper concludes that the long delay in recognizing hinductance reflects not a lack of data but a lack of coherence in our ways of knowing. The emerging hinductive paradigm therefore represents both a scientific and civilizational threshold: the moment when knowledge begins to remember itself.
